/lit/ - Literature

>He wondered again at the easy, graceful manner in which the Roman lyricists accepted the fact of death, as if the nothingness they faced were a tribute to the richness of the years they had enjoyed; and he marveled at the bitterness, the terror, the barely concealed hatred he found in some of the later Christian poets of the Latin tradition when they looked to that death which promised, however vaguely, a rich and ecstatic eternity of life, as if that death and promise were a mockery that soured the days of their living.

Any books about how human consciousness is an overgrown sense that serves no purpose?

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>create beings
>get mad at them

>inb4 free will
He gave us free will, and yet we still clearly started with a certain standard of behavior. For example, Adam didn't rape and kill Eve as soon as God pressed play.

What I'm saying is that God could have created us with whatever baseline traits he wanted while still giving us "free will".