It's tragic," he said. "God killed them with His hurricane," she said. "God had nothing to do with it." "Actually I agree with you, though for reason… - James Morrow

When a species fixates on the supernatural, it ceases to mature.

You want a motive, William? I've got a motive. Vengeance may not be a pretty word, but it's what's expected of us."
"Right!" said Sverre. "We owe it to all those millions of dead people to make more millions of dead people. Be careful how you rewrite strategic doctrine, General, or you'll come out of this war without a single medal.

You aspired to be God's advocate, you got the job, you performed admirably. But God's advocate was ipso facto my advocate. Theodicy's a sucker's game, Professor. When Yahweh was operational, humanity's obligation wasn't to worship Him, for chrissakes. It was to celebrate His creativity and stand forevermore opposed to His malice. And anybody such as yourself, anybody who sought to shoehorn an omnibenevolent God into the same universe as Auschwitz...that person, Dr. Gregory Francis Lovett—that person did the Devil's work for him.