Quote Originally Posted by eschmenk View Post
Maybe, but to me it doesn't work any better as sarcasm. Petey just did it and would probably do it again. If the other person can respond very reasonably, "OK, I'll do that," any sarcasm isn't going to be very effective. He'd have to be so ridiculously stupid that he doesn't know that Petey could do it.
He knows Petey can do it and he is expressing annoyance at Petey wasting his time instead of just doing whatever he is going to do. If god is going to act he should just do it instead of reprimanding everyone for not being as good as god for doing it.