“‘Wir sind, so sagte er, nihilistische Gedanken, Selbstmordgedanken, die in Gottes Kopf aufsteigen.’ Ich stellte damit die Lehre der Gnosis vom Demiurgen, dem bösen Weltschöpfer, von der Welt als Sündenfall Gottes in Entsprechung. ‘Nein’, sagte Kafka, ‘ich glaube, wir sind nicht ein so radikales Hinabsinken Gottes, nur eine seiner schlechten Launen, ein schlechter Tag.’ ‘So gäbe es außerhalb unserer Welt Hoffnung?’ Er lächelte: ‘Viel Hoffnung—für Gott—unendlich viel Hoffnung—, nur nicht für uns.’”
“‘We are, I said, nihilistic thoughts, suicidal thoughts that emanated from God’s head.’ I spoke in support of the doctrine of the Gnostics concerning the Demiurge, the evil creator of the world, the doctrine of the world as the Fall of God analogous to the Fall of Man. ‘No,’ said Kafka, ‘I believe we are not such a radical relapse of God’s, only one of his bad moods, a bad day.’ ‘So there would be hope beyond our world?’ He smiled, ‘Plenty of hope— for God—no end of hope,—but not for us.’”
—Max Brod, Über Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka. Eine Biographie (1954)
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“‘We are, I said, nihilistic thoughts, suicidal thoughts that emanated from God’s head.’ I spoke in support of the doctrine of the Gnostics concerning the Demiurge, the evil creator of the world, the doctrine of the world as the Fall of God analogous to the Fall of Man. ‘No,’ said Kafka, ‘I believe we are not such a radical relapse of God’s, only one of his bad moods, a bad day.’ ‘So there would be hope beyond our world?’ He smiled, ‘Plenty of hope— for God—no end of hope,—but not for us.’”
—Max Brod, Über Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka. Eine Biographie (1954)
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Juif et dieu
—Serge Gainsbourg
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As to Serge - his authority is much greater in earthly matters, rather than celestial:)
moreso