An issue with an anime

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(Before I start: I noticed another user had posted the same question a while ago, but since after viewing said thread my doubts were not resolved, I shall post it as my own question. Basically, I’m bumping someone else’s thread :D)

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I was watching Cowboy Bebop and, gotten to more or less halfway through (the episode named "Black Dog Serenade, to be more specific) and one of the charachters at the beginning says, after finding out the guards of the prison he was in had been killed by a fellow inmate, says “…] we shouldn’t waste what our whimsical God has given us”.
So…is, given the context, blasphemous to hold God as “whimsical”? (What confuses me is that the charachter does not appear spiteful towards Him, only…pragmatic, even a little thankful for the sudden luck… as if it was normal)
 
Cowboy Bebop was nihilistic. The lead character just goes with the flow - dying is a sweet nothing to him. It had style and some substance but the line you mention is this nihilistic kind of thinking that permeates this anime. Yes, it gives God a slap in the face.

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