“If rain was God crying, I think God was drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (2005)
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tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristoph.+Cl.+366
Clouds, line 366-367 (our emphasis on 367)
The Greek-mythology equivalent of "There is no God."
Clouds (423 BC)
“Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.”
"Heartattack and Vine", Heartattack and Vine (1980).
“Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?”
Variant: Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?
Source: Rebel Angels
“You can't swing a cat in Ancient Greece without hitting one of Zeus's ex-girlfriends.”
Source: Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
“If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again.”
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006), Recognizing Your Archenemy
Source: The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962]), Ch.VII Further Observations on Homer
