Create the devil / fight the devil
A Advice God post.
"You can wear whatever you like," says your mum, "as long as it's the blue one." Free will has been granted. It's the blue one. The boss says the team is empowered to make its own decisions, then reverses all three of them in one evening email titled "just a thought". It wasn't a thought. It was a commandment. You buy the dog a £200 orthopaedic bed. The dog sleeps in the cardboard box it came in. You made her, in a sense, and she has her own ideas about your creation. The teacher says there are no stupid questions. Then Kevin asks whether the Romans had dinosaurs, and she has to decide, in front of 30 witnesses, whether she believes in her own rule. **Why it caught on:** the frowning face of God from Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted between 1508 and 1512, became the voice of advice from the top for the early 2010s Reddit atheism crowd. Anyone who has lived under rules made by the one person allowed to break them knows that face.