[Aw, I live in constant fear that it's coming across as too hokey, so thanks, dude! Much appreciated <3]
He shurgs. "Indeed one cannot know God's ways or reasons," says Iago, "But perhaps it is for our betterment, that we are pushed to warring, in lieu of His own judgement. It takes much hacking and hewing with ax and chisel for the mason or carpenter to build a lord's manse, and he loses much of the wood and stone. He may cast it off as rubble and dust trampled into the sod, but that which remains makes a fine house. Perhaps it is so with men with which God builds his Church." By his tone of voice, it is impossible to tell whether or not he believes what he's saying.
Though the God he was taught to believe in may be unknowable and all-powerful, He also has very clear ideas re: sinners, heathens, foreigners, crime-committers... nominally the same God and Christ as your more waffley, toothless modern Catholicism, but it's amazing how emphases on different Bible verses can change through the centuries. The whole being endowed with choice and sentience doesn't necessarily fit into the religion Iago was schooled in. God wills what He wills, and there's not much any of His puny creation can do about it.
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He shurgs. "Indeed one cannot know God's ways or reasons," says Iago, "But perhaps it is for our betterment, that we are pushed to warring, in lieu of His own judgement. It takes much hacking and hewing with ax and chisel for the mason or carpenter to build a lord's manse, and he loses much of the wood and stone. He may cast it off as rubble and dust trampled into the sod, but that which remains makes a fine house. Perhaps it is so with men with which God builds his Church." By his tone of voice, it is impossible to tell whether or not he believes what he's saying.
Though the God he was taught to believe in may be unknowable and all-powerful, He also has very clear ideas re: sinners, heathens, foreigners, crime-committers... nominally the same God and Christ as your more waffley, toothless modern Catholicism, but it's amazing how emphases on different Bible verses can change through the centuries. The whole being endowed with choice and sentience doesn't necessarily fit into the religion Iago was schooled in. God wills what He wills, and there's not much any of His puny creation can do about it.