But faith brings with it the only possibility of peace and joy in this world—the only possibility of laughter on this mad, mad ride. Denying God’s power is a theological attempt to reduce whatever sentence Man might choose to impose against Him, to cut down on Man’s cosmic bitterness when the story goes dark. But if an all-powerful God is somehow made evil because He has given me pain, an impotent God is tainted in the same way. If killing me makes an omnipotent God guilty of homicide, the best a partially potent God will get off with is negligent manslaughter.
