Book two of
James Morrow's
Godhead Trilogy. When an earthquake disgorges the
Corpus Dei from its resting place in the Arctic, the
American Baptist Church pays the
Vatican $1.3 billion to put the 2-mile, 80-megaton corpse on display at its "Celestial City"
theme park. The
Job Society forms, to prosecute the late
Jehovah before the
International Court at
the Hague. A tour of
the preserved physical brain of God ensues.
Morrow expressed a certain discomfort over this work; in developing the case for
the defense, he delved pretty deeply into the question of God's complicity in human suffering. His quotable conclusions: "
The more successful you are at explaining evil, the more evil your explanation becomes." "
There is a hair-thin line between reasoning about evil, and rationalizing evil."
(book one:
Towing Jehovah | book three:
The Eternal Footman)