“Whose angry? I'm not angry!” he said when his partner suggested that he might be angry.“I'm not angry! I'm just upset at the injustice of it all! That's what I have—a sense of justice. Besides, it would take a steel spine to not get angry at the way things are going.”
“And how are things going?”
“To hell in a handbag!”
“I have never figured out what that meant.”
“It means that things are going to hell!”
“What's going to hell?”
“Everything. This country. Jobs. The election. I hope it eventually straightens out.”
“Straightens out? Where is it crooked?”
Everything is crooked. Politicians. Business. The government. It's getting so you can't get anything done right unless you please the right people—and that sometimes takes money. Mostly you have to please some petty bureaucrat.”
“I'm trying to understand. We have to depend on the government, but we can't depend on the government because it's become too bureaucratic? Then who or what can we depend on?”
“Nobody” then after a few moments of silence, “Faith. You can depend on faith.”
“Faith in what?”
“Faith that things will get better.”
“What if they don't get better? What if things get worse? Faith in what, then?”
“Faith in God.”
“You suggest that God is in charge, but if things are going to hell, then God is not responsible.”
“Do I need to remind you about the Devil? The Devil is responsible for evil.”
“Who is this devil?”
“Evil. The devil represents evil.”
This was difficult to understand. “Where did the devil come from?”
“From God. The Devil came from God.”
“So God, the all good, created the evil Devil?”
“Yes, that's what the good book says.”
“It says everything and anything, so it can't be anything else but good. But good is responsible for evil? Isn't that a contradiction?”“It's not for us mere mortals to understand.”
“But don't we operate on what we understand?”
“You don't understand anything. Hello—haven't you been listening? I'm not angry. I'm just upset at the injustice of it all!”
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