62. What Is the Attitude of the Two Greatest Religions to the Surplus of Failures in Life?

Among men, as among all other animals, there is a surplus of defective, diseased, degenerating, infirm, and unnecessarily suffering individuals. The higher the type a man represents, the greater is the improbability that he will succeed. If one could observe the strangely painful, equally coarse and refined comedy of European Christianity, with the derisive and impartial eye of an Epicurean god, I should never cease marvelling and laughing.