“Hell is cruel. Yet to blame the cruelty of hell on God is like an alcoholic blaming sobriety for the pain of his addiction. Sobriety is the cure the alcoholic needs, not the disease that afflicts him. His enslavement arises not from sobriety but from those forces that exist outside sobriety’s realm. His problem is rooted in the fact that he ultimately craves sobriety’s absence more than its presence; the cruelty is in the craving and its consequence.”
