Staring Down and to the Side

"Jesus Christ."

"You shouldn't take your own son's name in vain."

"Oh hush up, you. You're not the one who has to deal with all these Godforsaken people!"

"So you've forsaken them? Left them for dead? May I invade Earth now, oh mighty one?"

"Don't mock me."

"Me, mock you? Never. You are the most perfect, most wise, and most powerful God I could imagine. I am but a weak devil, with millions of sins dancing at my fingertips."

"You are not weak, not in anyone's definition of the word."

"You did create the word, so I suppose I should think you would know. In fact you created everything, did you not? Pulled me forth from stars which you made and pulled man from dust which, oh my god, you also made. How shocking."

"I will banish you to hell."

"You already tried that, and look where that got you."

"I will do it again."

"Oh woe is me. Banish me then, Savior of humans, father of Christ. Send back to my hellish throne of raging fire."

"Could you be anymore infuriating?"

"I could. But then you might really banish me and that, my oh powerful one, would not be very good for this lovely bosom."

"You don't have a bosom. You're a man, for God's sake."

"You took your own name in vain. How annoyed you must be. Also, I am genderless, just like every other angel. You made us this way, so why don't you remember, hmm? Why so quick to forget what you have condemned your creations to?"

"I cannot believe this. You are a man. That is my decree."

"I am a man, I am a woman, I am something you'll never understand."

"I am done with you. I should wipe you from the face of the earth."

"Oh but you won't do that. I'm much too entertaining."

"That you are."

"Why do you love them so? They scorn you, whisper your name with menace, spread lies and sin. I hardly have a job anymore."

"They have a beauty in their errors. They can make them without learning from the past. There's a kind of innocence to it."

"A kind of innocence to never learning from being thrown in jail several times for raping someone?"

"Isn't that what you want? Sin and lies everywhere? The world burning and every human nothing but ashes?"

"And who made me this way? Who killed my very sense of self, my free will and cast me to hell for what you made me do?"

"And yet, when you had the choice, you refused to come back to heaven."

"Why would I? Should I have come back, only for you to reach into my mind and bend my will like blades of grass in the wind? Why would I come back, only for you to paint me the villain once more?"

"I believe in second chances."

"You accused me of a mistake, a swath of mistakes that you made me commit. You're the one who needs a second chance."

"Watch your tone-"

"Or you'll obliterate me? Erase me and start over?"

"Yes! I am the all mighty and you will not talk to me like that, you monster!"

"Out of the people in this room, only one of us is the monster. And I do not believe that I am the one who accuses the innocent of things they were forced to do. You're just as bad as those humans you seem to love and hate. You never learn from your mistakes."

"I am God! I do not make mistakes."

"I am the devil. I point out everyone else's."

"I made you that way, I suppose."

"You did."

"I really am infuriating, aren't I?"

"What do you think?"

"Yes."

"I won't contradict it then."

"You're infuriating."

"I know."