“Dinosaur fossils? God put those here to test our faith.”

—  Bill Hicks

Source: Revelations (1993)
Context: I think God put you here to test my faith, dude. Does that bother anybody else—the idea that God might be … fucking with our heads? I have trouble sleeping with that knowledge. Some prankster God running around, [pantomimes digging] "We'll see who believes in Me now! I am the Prankster God. I am killing Me!"

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