Is God dead?

[Sethomas]

I always liked the Book of Job. God's not dead, or even less attentitive. He's just having fun and proving a point. I'm reading a book right now about miracles in the medieval world. Back then, God's hand in daily affairs was an a priori, at least in the common mind. Were people happier with their lives back then? Fuck no. And of course, when people made assertions of their right to pleasure and dissent, God vanished. So, it's pretty pointless to throw out claims that God is here or gone or on sabbatical or whatever. Life was ingeniously engineered to be an awful crock of shit. Call it Original Sin, call it whatever. If you have faith, at least you can hold onto the pretension that you'll be rewarded ultimately for putting up with it all.