Reminds me of the how Christopher Hitchens used to describe Christianity, “created sick, then commanded to be well.”
Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects, in a cruel experiment, whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well. I’ll repeat that: created sick, and then ordered to be well. And over us, to supervise this, is installed a celestial dictatorship, a kind of divine North Korea. Greedy, exigent—exigent, I would say more than exigent—greedy for uncritical praise from dawn until dusk and swift to punish the original sins with which it so tenderly gifted us in the very first place.
Reminds me of the how Christopher Hitchens used to describe Christianity, “created sick, then commanded to be well.”