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  • I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists here below, then either it was willed by God or it was beyond His powers to prevent it. Now I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy Him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts.

    Marquis de Sade, David Coward (1999). “The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales”, p.127, Oxford Paperbacks