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[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The funny thing is that people believe very specific things about gods, like that there's only one, or that they're nice or at least have similar values to us.

[โ€“] Dkarma@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or give a shit at All about you ...that one's hilarious.

Vast incalculable cosmos to rule but God gives a shit about an ant? Ok buddy. U just want my $10 for this week's plate

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or literally look like a specifically male human. What he does with those two legs when he already exists everywhere, nobody knows. It's not just the Abrahamic religions either, all the myths of the world have a bit of anthropocentrism to them. That was excusable when we had no better ideas.

[โ€“] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My favorite interpretation of that was in Mage: The Ascension. Man being "in God's image" wasn't morphological, it was in man's ability to reshape reality to his whims.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

On the subject of fiction, I was thinking about H.P Lovecraft when I wrote this. His whole thing was making a mythology that's not anthropocentric, and incorporates that character of vast incomprehensibility that our modern science has.