"O lantern, bye-bye-bye
If you throw a stone at it, your hand withers away
O lantern, bye-bye-bye."
(This is a child's rhyme, taken from the novel Silence, by Shusaku Endo. It supposedly came from the Japanese festival of Urabon. However, I do not know if even the festival is actual or a literary devise of Endo's to show the supposed smiting of God to those who first curse Him.)
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