nepharious | Neph's Thoughts on God (Reply)

'"How did all this get here? How did I come to be stuck here in it? Will I end, when I cool? If not, then what? Does it matter what I do in the meantime? If so, why? Is it all going somewhere? Is there some kind of point? Or is virtue its only reward? Is there a God? And if so, is anyone mounting an assault on Heaven? That's the thing I never grokked about religious belief, you know? All that time I spent watching people die for a living...watching their loved ones buckle with grief and loss...seeing that all human lives begin with agony, and most of them end with it...that no more than five or ten percent of real-life stories, if that, get anything you could possibly call a happy ending--" Deep breath. "--that a good half of even those of us lucky enough to die in a hospital bed die in unbearable pain, which God allegedly forbids us to shorten...that when we beg Him on our knees for ten thousand years straight to explain why this torture must happen, to as many souls as procreatively possible, all we get back is 'Trust Me.'" Deep breath. "I can understand people who believe in God, Jacob. I just can't understand why they aren't trying their best to kill the motherfucker."'

-Dr. Samuel Webster, Callahan's Con