Lucifer is watching him while he speaks, this human with righteous anger at beings beyond his comprehension. These are words he recognizes-- what other conclusion could you come to than God wanted the Devil?-- just in slightly different context, and he wonders just what celestial beings Daniel has come in contact with that have been jerking him around so fiercely.
"Is there any greater injustice," he says softly, "than a being with power and foresight who mouths justice but delivers none? Who mouths mercy and delivers none; who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness given seventy times seven, and delivers none; who decries crime and allows every atrocity?"
A God who mouths justice and mercy and love and invented Hell. A God who made the brightest angel, knowing that he would Fall; made him to punish him, had his punishment ready for him before he had even thought to commit his sins.
"What do you call a being," he says, "who mouths morals and has none?"
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"Is there any greater injustice," he says softly, "than a being with power and foresight who mouths justice but delivers none? Who mouths mercy and delivers none; who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness given seventy times seven, and delivers none; who decries crime and allows every atrocity?"
A God who mouths justice and mercy and love and invented Hell. A God who made the brightest angel, knowing that he would Fall; made him to punish him, had his punishment ready for him before he had even thought to commit his sins.
"What do you call a being," he says, "who mouths morals and has none?"