god is grating

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Every conversation with a fundamentalist overwhelms me with gratitude that I escaped that particular degenerative brain disease. To them, of course, anything and everything that happens in life empirically proves God's existence, and they can't wait to show you the data. If they get cancer, it's God testing them. If they beat it, God is great. If they have two weeks to live, God works in mysterious ways we mortals cannot possibly understand. They are capable of extracting validation from a complete void.

Me, I fervently believe that the only appropriate response to developing cancer is Fuck. Perhaps Fuck me. That would be the Greek Orthodox variant of my religion.