“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe."

This is the reason why I hate organized religion, not because it's inherently bad but the way that people follow it in that there's something so evil in it. I'm agnostic myself so to say but as I'm born in a Hindu family, it is assumed by the society that I'd die a Hindu and follow all the moralities that have been formed by the Saints -- It's just that I respect the ancient scripts but the religious leaders of today are not at all enlightening and it's just brainwashing and entertainment for the masses -- it's a shortcut to thinking and spoonfeeding of all the thoughts. And with that one starts getting disillusioned that the basis of a constitution gets overridden by religious morality.

I think Meursault makes a great character who doesn't give a fuck and I'd say I haven't judged him for the crime he commits but executing him for his unsentimentality and his insensitivity in some past events of his life makes this case extremely absurd.

This book reminds me so much of Kafka's "The Trial" as Camus was so influenced by him, that actually makes it more fascinating for me, although this book is more down-to-earth compared to Kafka's expressionistic style but nonetheless one of the greatest studies of absurdism.