An idea from Ethics

A stone falls from a roof and kills a man, and someone says God meant it. Answer with the wind and his errand, and they ask why the wind blew just then. The questions go back until you take refuge in the will of God, the sanctuary of ignorance.

From Ethics by Baruch Spinoza

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