God is above spite, which is why He pays no attention to someone who gets up and says, “If there’s a God, let Him strike me dead in 10 seconds.” Ten awful seconds pass when scarcely the heart beats and nobody breathes, waiting for the spiteful God in heaven to strike him down. The superstitious are waiting for God to rise up and act like a man. God is not spiteful. God is infinitely patient with us poor little chest-beating boasters. He is infinitely kind and merciful. If He were not, we should all be in hell today.
