Along the way she’d acquired a powerful conviction that history was a series of accidents—God was either absent or playing a very elaborate practical… - Charles Stross

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Along the way she’d acquired a powerful conviction that history was a series of accidents—God was either absent or playing a very elaborate practical joke (the Eschaton didn’t count, having explicitly denied that it was a deity)—and that the seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so.