In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

— Christopher Hitchens

Let us hope...that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

— Peter De Vries