Omar Khayyam's quatrain 69 from the Rubaiyat reads:
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days;
Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.
In other words, Khayyam envisions a capricious creator who, after tiring of playing games with his human inventions, places them back into a darkened closet (death?). Do you agree with Khayyam's view of God? Why or why not?
