Job

[Pat Mustard]

I think that if Job were to make a comment from heaven he would probably agree that if his temporary suffering, while he was here on earth, could inspire thousands than for him it would be worth it.

What doesn't kill you can make you stronger, it just depends on how you handle it.

Our book is meant to inspire martyrs, not your typical country club coffee and donuts crowd that our current churches thrive on.

What about his family's permanent suffering? The worst evil you can do is to make others suffer all for your own personal amusement.

I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I'm sure you will agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged on to a half-submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature's wonders, gentlemen: mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior

Havelock Vetinari was speaking about your god there.