Three carved theatrical masks in black, charcoal and pale grey show different degrees of frowning against slate.

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Voltaire

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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Our interpretation.

The comparison imagines God as a comedian whose audience fears laughing. It draws attention to apprehension about divine authority rather than establishing a fact about God or an actual performance. The attribution remains unverified.

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