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In His Image?

Since we all know "God" is perfect and immortal, and since the Booble tells us we are all created "in His image," one is led to the inescapable conclusion that "God" is a mean old bastard. First, "He" denies us immortality unless we adhere to an arbitrary and capricious desert warlord code, then "He" punishes us by killing us, a penultimate evil. Once "He" shows us how mortal we are, "He" decides how nice we have behaved on earth, which he uses, like a judge at a revocation of probation, to send us to Pearly Gatesville or Chipotle Hell. We cannot possibly be "created" in "His" image, unless of course "His" image is imperfect and mortal.

Tags: God,, Heaven, Hell, immortality, mortality

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Permalink Reply by Anyone on February 12, 2009 at 4:15pm

Also I never got that his image would have lower hearing and vision then other animals

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Permalink Reply by James M. Martin on February 12, 2009 at 4:47pm

Hitchens and others have reminded us of this. It would seem to me that dogs would go to heaven for their ability to sniff cancer in the human body, and cats would, too, for their night sight. But, then, "God" takes these animals in 12-15 years, whereas "He" allows us to go on to 70 and older (unless you are born in, say, Haiti -- one might conclude "God" really hates African-Americans, just as the Mormons insist). As the late George Carlin continually complained, "God" is more arbitrary than the national lottery: the illustration Carlin uses is female bare-headedness in synagogues and head covering in cathedrals. Sheesh! What's a poor girl to do?

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Permalink Reply by James M. Martin on February 15, 2009 at 10:14am

Nano, you sound not only atheist but surrealist. The ultimate image you employ is like something out of a Buñuel movie, say, The Milky Way, or his unproduced screenplay based on Huysmans' La-Bas. As to your point, of course we have chronic back problems: our ancestors swung in trees and got plenty of exercise, whereas the body of homo sapiens, being an intermediate stage in terms of geological age, is not yet evolved into a superior species. With our sedantary lifestyles, we allow the primate portions of our bodies to atrophy. As the mind becomes more and more evolved and use of the body less and less important, the latter suffers. If we are created in "God's" image, I pity the poor s.o.b. Seriously, if there is a "god," it's DNA.

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Permalink Reply by Goz on February 15, 2009 at 4:38pm

Nano, your not going to get started on nipples and belly buttons.?
I was rather looking forward to that.

And yeah,this god strikes me as being a vindictive,unforgiving sadist.
But then again,with all those back problems,he must be testy and need to take it out on someone..