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• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  God, Religious, Hands

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

  David Hume

  Religious, Character, Evil

  David Hume (1793). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.467

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