Wit & Attitude Quote by Johann Most

A revolutionary doesn’t call God an idiot to win a theology seminar; he does it to strip a rival authority of its mystique. Most’s jab isn’t aimed at private faith so much as at the God "revealed in his book" - a pointed narrowing that targets scripture as a political instrument: edicts, narratives, rules dressed up as cosmic inevitability. By making the deity "practically an idiot", he flips the usual hierarchy. Instead of humans judged by divine reason, divine reason is judged by ordinary human standards - "any sensible person" becomes the real court of appeal.

The line works because it’s less a metaphysical claim than a tactic of disenchantment. Calling God irrational is a way of calling priests, kings, and lawmakers irrational when they hide behind God-talk. In Most’s era, churches weren’t just moral arbiters; they were pillars of social discipline, often aligned with the state against labor movements and radical organizing. The insult functions as class war rhetoric: if the sacred text reads like authoritarian commands and inconsistent stories, then the authority derived from it is counterfeit.

There’s also a subtext of impatience with moral blackmail. "Nothing to say" is a refusal to keep negotiating with a voice that can’t be challenged. Most is asserting a modern standard: legitimacy requires argument, evidence, and accountability, not revelation. The profanity of tone is the point - it’s meant to break the spell, to make reverence feel embarrassing, like taking orders from a dull bureaucrat who happens to claim infinity.