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Why would a reasonable person believe in God?

‘What the hell are you getting so upset about?' he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrived amusement. 'I thought you didn't believe in God.'

‘I don't,' she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. 'But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him to be.'

Yossarian laughed and turned her arms loose. 'Let's have a little more religious freedom between us,' he proposed obligingly. 'You don't believe in the God you want to, and I won't believe in the God I want to. Is that a deal?’

Joseph Heller, Catch-22
 
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