#uncaring god

[howifeltabouthim]

At times like these, Claire thought that maybe God did exist, not as some benevolent being or terrifying father, but as the omniscient equivalent of a prank show host. An Ashton Kutcher kind of God.

Laura Hankin, from Happy & You Know It

[howifeltabouthim]

He looked up. The stars, he thought, had been watching him his whole life. They'd seen the whole thing go on and on. Him and the rest of all the people who had ever lived and ever would. It was like living in a museum exhibit or a dollhouse. It was so easy to imagine the hands of some enormous and indifferent God prying the house open and squinting at them as they went about their lives on their circuits like little automatons in an exhibit called The Late Americans. A God with a Gorgon's head peering down in judgment. What were you supposed to do in the face of that? Turn to stone? Fuck. He mattered so little.

Brandon Taylor, from The Late Americans

[white-wolf-soul]

Romaticizing misery by making it personal like: Oh, God must hate me to target me like this. Because you can't handle the thought of him being dispassionate and uncaring.

[westar]

[strongagnostic]

HUNDREDS OF REASONS NOT TO BE RELIGIOUS#234 Most religions would have us believe in a God who is interested in our everyday life, even though all the empirical evidence shows that He does not give a shit about us; or that He does not exist. We are like a deity in our ruling over the animals in Wildlife Refuge Areas and National Parks. Long ago, we decided not to interfere in the life or death of the animals. We allow fires to burn and animals to starve. Even when the Rangers can help, they let animals drown and suffer and die from disease. Our choice not to help, but to look away when we see suffering sounds like the way God, if He exists, treats us. There is obviously no God involved in our everyday life, especially one who cares about us. This is the opposite of religious beliefs.