“I have a sense that God is unfair

and preferentially punishes 

his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy.

I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us.

He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any.

He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal attributes that make us utterly unlikable.

Having placed his flawed and needy children in a world of exacting specifications, he deducts the difference between what we have and what we need from our hearts and our self-esteem and our mental health.”

― George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

 

 Anton Semenov