Their Personal God

[dave_littler]

For quite some time now, I've been saying that not only do cultures create their gods in their own images, so too do individual believers within these cultures invent their gods in their own individual images. Not too long ago, we got some medical data which seems to support this contention.

A year or so ago, I remember reading about some

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[skittish_derby]

that is very interesting. thought provoking, thanks for sharing.

and, gah... about the noah's flood thing-- I was just complaining about how horrible that story is on my fb, and I got so much flack from so many of those terrifying people saying things like "it is a beautiful story of..." just... no.

[dave_littler]

Yeah, a lot of the stories in the very early parts of the bible/torah are just so nakedly barbaric and bloodthirsty that they unflinchingly appeal to the very worst and lowest parts of the human character. To pretend otherwise is to show yourself to be a liar or a fool.

Have you read my take on the similarly-horrible story of Sodom and Gamorrah?

[skittish_derby]

i don't think so. lol. do you have a link?

[dave_littler]

Certainly. Here you go.

http://dave-littler.livejournal.com/118870.html

"I could write a better god with my ass tied behind my back"; November 26th, 2009.

[skittish_derby]

as usual, your biblical prose is superb. and it made me happy. =]

[dave_littler]

Well, hey, it may be worth your time just to peruse my "religion" tag a bit; I've certainly tagged a good many entries with that one, and if you missed that entry, you may have missed others you'll also like.