if he believed in an all-powerful God, he would stop healing people, leaving him to care for them. But that no one in the world, no, not even Paneloux who believed he believed, thought that kind of God existed, since no one abandoned themselves totally, and that in this at least, he, Rieux, believed he was on the true path, fighting against creation, such as it was.
Rieux "fighting against creation" to end sickness puts him in a supernatural, godlike position.
