Justin Zigenis’s Reviews > Lives of Girls and Women > Status Update

“Do you know what I’m leading up to?”
“No,” I said honestly.
“God was made by man!”

...”Listen to their hymns, that’s all they’re ever about. What about a God who isn’t satisfied until he has got somebody hanging on a cross for six hours, nine hours, or whatever it was? If I was God I wouldn’t be so bloodthirsty. Ordinary people wouldn’t be so bloodthirsty. I don’t count Hitler. At one time maybe they would be but not now. Do you know what I’m saying?”....

"Christ died for our sins," said my mother, jumping up. In the hall mirror she peered aggressively at her own dim face. "Well well well. Redeemed by the blood. That is a lovely notion. You might as well take the Aztecs cutting out live hearts because they thought the sun wouldn't rise and set if they didn't. Christianity is no better. What do you think of a God that ask for blood? Blood blood blood..."