I’m sure its been done before, but it’s my first time watching it FMA:B through, so I had to do it.
He has insider information that God is a punk-ass bitch.
Absolutely a recurring theme in Pratchett’s books XD
“I don’t hold with paddlin’ with the occult,” said Granny firmly. “Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you’re believing in gods. And then you’re in trouble.”
“But all them things exist,” said Nanny Ogg.
“That’s no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages ‘em.”
Lords and Ladies, Terry Pratchett
Thinking about it thats probably WHY ed was able to beat truth. Truth is objectively some kind of deity. The people of xerxes thought him a higher being. The homonculus thought him a source of power. Ed treated him as nothing more than some asshole thats bored.