{"product_id":"the-defects-of-creation-enzo-martucci-sa1340","title":"The Defects of Creation | Enzo Martucci | SA1340","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\"A God who creates in order to make suffer is not a good God: He is a monster.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eWritten in Florence in 1957 and first published in Italian only in 1964, \u003cem\u003eThe Defects of Creation\u003c\/em\u003e is Enzo Martucci's coldest assault on the Christian God — here in English for the first time. A single chapter from \u003cem\u003eIl diavolo ha vinto\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Devil Has Won\u003c\/em\u003e), the Satanic collection Martucci left unpublished at his death, it takes the oldest weapon against faith — the problem of evil — and hones it to a razor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eA creator truly omnipotent and truly good, Martucci argues, could have made his creatures self-sufficient, or spared himself the trouble of making them at all. Instead He built a world where every living thing survives only by devouring another — its emblem the cow driven alive into piranha-choked water, lifting \"a gaze full of pain and reproach to the sky.\" Reading scripture itself as a ledger of the defects of its own Creator, and flattening the apologetics of theologians and popes alike, he concludes that a God who creates in order to make suffer is no loving Father but a monster. What begins as theodicy ends as revolt: \u003cem\u003eAgainst divine injustice Satan has risen\u003c\/em\u003e, Martucci writes, closing with the demon's cry from Dante's \u003cem\u003eInferno\u003c\/em\u003e — \u003cem\u003ePapè, papè, Satan aleppe\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eTranslated by the Union of Egoists, edited and designed by Kevin I. Slaughter. A companion to \u003cem\u003eBanner of the Antichrist\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Red Sect\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHistory of Philosophy: From Thales to Stirner\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Union of Egoists","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52404764016923,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0040\/0461\/0117\/files\/SA1340-DefectsOfCreation.png?v=1782477496","url":"https:\/\/underworldamusements.com\/products\/the-defects-of-creation-enzo-martucci-sa1340","provider":"Underworld Amusements","version":"1.0","type":"link"}