“Nature is cruel and vicious and that that is why man was given dominion over the natural world, because man was the only creature that God could trust to bring justice to it.” Idalina frowned at this, but nonetheless she returned her arm to her granddaughter’s shoulders and gave them a reassuring squeeze. “Nature is certainly cruel,” she said, in a voice which sounded strangely cold and detached. “But make no mistake; man is crueller. And the gods: the gods are cruellest of all.” HumanityCrueltyGodsMan And Nature Book:From Whence The Rivers Run Source: From Whence The Rivers Run
“Nature is certainly cruel... But make no mistake; man is crueller. And the gods: the gods are cruellest of all.” HumanityNatureCrueltyGods Book:From Whence The Rivers Run Source: From Whence The Rivers Run
“That God, or gods existed, she had never doubted. If her husband’s death however had done anything it was to confirm to her the belief she had developed as a child, that the gods, though extant, were not worthy of worship; that by their inaction they had shown that they cared little for humanity. Probably, she had always supposed, they were too absorbed in their own lives to do anything but occasionally watch from afar as people suffered and struggled against the consequences of their inaction.” GodSufferingGodsInactionExistence Of God Book:From Whence The Rivers Run Source: From Whence The Rivers Run