"Indeed, your gracious Majesty," the monk said, looking down modestly at the carpet. His voice sounded respectful. "Our Belief - perhaps not so dissimilar from your own, more venerable and more widely followed creed - is that God is a Mad Scientist and we His experimental subjects, doomed forever to run the Maze of Life through apparently random and unjust punishments for meaningless and paltry rewards and no discernible good reason save His evil pleasure."
(from Against A Dark Background, by Iain M. Banks)
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