Fortune favours the brave, sir, " said Carrot cheerfully." Good. Good. Pleased to hear it, captain. What is her position vis a vis heavily armed, well prepared and excessively manned armies?"" Oh, no—one's ever heard of Fortune favouring them, sir."" According to General Tacticus, it's because they favour themselves, " said Vimes. He opened the battered book. Bits of paper and string indicated his many bookmarks. "In fact, men, the general has this to say about ensuring against defeat when outnumbered, out—weaponed and outpositioned. It is.." he turned the page, "'Don't Have a Battle.'""Sounds like a clever man, " said Jenkins. He pointed to the yellow horizon." See all that stuff in the air?" he said. "What do you think that is?"" Mist?" said Vimes."Hah, yes. Klatchian mist! It's a sandstorm! The sand blows about all the time. Vicious stuff. If you want to sharpen your sword, just hold it up in the air."" Oh."" And it's just as well because otherwise you'd see Mount Gebra. And below it is what they call the Fist of Gebra. It's a town but there's a bloody great fort, walls thirty feet thick. 's like a big city all by itself. 's got room inside for thousands of armed men, war elephants, battle camels, everything. And if you saw that, you'd want me to turn round right now. Whats your famous general got to say about it, eh?"" I think I saw something.." said Vimes. He flicked to another page. "Ah, yes, he says, 'After the first battle of Sto Lat, I formulated a policy which has stood me in good stead in other battles. It is this: if the enemy has an impregnable stronghold, see he stays there.'"" That's a lot of help, " said Jenkins.Vimes slipped the book into a pocket." So, Constable Visit, there's a god on our side, is there?"" Certainly, sir."" But probably also a god on their side as well?"" Very likely, sir. There's a god on every side."" Let's hope they balance out, then. Terry Pratchett
About This Quote

There are many ways of looking at this quote. If you're interested in the meaning behind it, you may interpret the comment as saying that there are lots of people with faith in God, but that they aren't doing anything to help those who need it most. To hold onto the belief that there is no God would be to ignore the evidence of our own eyes. For He is everywhere... holding all things together- including us. There is a lot of talk about how "God is dead" nowadays.

People with this view feel that since science has proven that God doesn't exist, then they should stop believing in God. They say that if God does exist, then they should worship him because it's their duty as a "good person". However I'll argue against this view by saying that most people don't want to believe in God, so why should they? If you don't want to believe in God, then you shouldn't do something wrong? That's not fair! You can't make someone believe in God.

If you want to help others, you should do more than just tell them to believe in God…you should give them reasons why they should believe in him over science. A good way to do this is through the concept of causality. Think about what happens when you don't help someone or give them the right information…what happens to them? You may be thinking that your religion isn't perfect either…that your religion allows for godly beings other than Jesus…maybe your religion doesn't have a godly being called Jesus…so why would I encourage people to follow my religion instead of yours? If you think about it, what's so bad about having a godly being other than Jesus? What if he/she helped people more than Jesus did? What if he/she was totally different from Jesus? It's not bad to have an alternate version of Jesus either, because it means that even though he looks different from Jesus, his teachings are still correct.

All of his teachings remain valid even after an "alternate" version of him comes along. This shows how important having an alternate version is for maintaining the validity of your religion - without him, your religion would be incomplete and wouldn't be able to help anyone like it does now (because your religion wouldn't be complete). So why shouldn't we accept the existence of alternate versions of gods too? I'm tired of having people say "This is impossible!

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