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Man made God in his own image.

The full quote is:

"Man made God in his own image. The eternal, the infinite and the unnameable reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in and worship as my God or your God."    (by Eckhart Tolle)

For me, the beauty of this quote rests with the fact that it does not deny the existence of a "God". It is a sincere reflection that speaks deep and directly to your consciousness, and it disolves all the mental noise and dust that has accumulated through the millenia on the subject of "God".

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1 point

When you look at religious idols, the idol always takes on characteristics of the culture. You don't have Hindus worshiping gods with Northern Germanic features, for example.

This supports the idea that we invented gods out of our own imagination.

Side: agree

aveskde is correct. I believe his argument accurately summarises my beliefs on the subject. Gods are born of ignorance and vanity.

Side: agree

If there was a supreme being, which is highly unlikely, I think it would be beyond anything we could conceive.

The image of gods was created out of fear of the unknown.

Side: agree
1 point

There are many possibilities. Earth may be a far-flung frontier planet that has been 'seeded' with life using a technology as yet unexplained and unknown. Today's evolutionary scientists are writing about the two legs, two arms, five fingers, anatomy as being the best, if not only, possible outcome in random mutation and environmental adaptation scenarios. The Judeo-Christian legacy talks about Angels from Heaven, possibly meaning Extra-Terrestrial humanoids. The top three Angelic 'choirs' are called Seraphim (fairies, winged-humanoid from another planet), Cherubim (giant humans who are unbelievably intelligent and who control nations and governments, who may be our original ancestors from another planet), and Thrones (stand-alone, high-tech Virtual Reality command centers that could pilot interstellar space-ships, communicate with far away planets, and manipulate Earth society, all the while sitting on a chair, safe at home behind locked doors).

By the way, God the Father has horns or didn't you hear the news. (See debate about Does God have horns). There are also certain human organs that make no sense as well as the playful design aspects of certain species like Zebras, Giraffe, Kangaroos, Peacocks, Parrots, Swordfish, along with the existence of numerous 'errors' that have no 'evolutionary' explanations which provide clues to other-worldly involvement.

The resulting evidence known as today's planet Earth may point to a crew of bungling, goof-off, fallible bio-genetic engineers (Angels) employed by a preoccupied President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board (God) of an Inter-galactic Corporation called Life. Inc. While their Corporate Headquarters is still located at, you guessed it, the Kingdom of Heaven.

Open your mind and read the Bible at least once. You might find more than just a bunch of primitive nonsense that doesn't like gay people. Instead, you might find it to be the best-kept record of supernatural occurrences (ET, Aliens) ever known. May the LORD God bless you in the name of St. Judas Maccabaeus.

Side: agree

Read this argument's tag.

It's the only valid argument, in my opinion.

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Well, no one can absolutely know if God exsts at all. But, even if he doesn't, the person who "made" God, can be very proud of himself that he convinced billions, and possibly trillions that God is completely real.

Side: unknown