To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world.
To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.
People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.