“I believe in God. Still.” He wobbled a little on the saddle. “I just don’t know that God has our best interests in mind. I always understood the brutality of the Old Testament as a metaphor—the world was brutal and so their grasp of it was equally brutal, you know? The New Testament gave us a reckoning with that, and showed us a God who believed in forgiveness and love. But now, looking out at the world, I’m not so sure anymore. I think the God I believed in, or believe in now, is that Old Testament one. The fire-and-flood guy. The one who lets disasters happen and evil flourish in order to
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