What do you believe in?’ asked David.‘I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their pleas or leaves them to suffer, they say only that he is beyond their understanding and abandon themselves to his will. What kind of god is that? John Connolly
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This is the story of a man who was constantly rejected by his family and friends, and he ends up committing suicide. He continued to believe in God and all the stories about him. When he got sick, he was told that God does not exist. When he died, he could not remember any of the stories he had heard and so it meant nothing to him.

Source: The Book Of Lost Things

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