Man Made Gods
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MAN-MADE GODS Quotes from ancients and moderns “Ethiopians imagine their gods are snub-nosed and black; Thracians imagine theirs as blue-eyed and red- haired.” - XENOPHANNES * “When you say that if I deny, that the operations of seeing, hearing, attending, wishing, &c., can be ascribed to God, or that they exist in Him in any eminent fashion, you do not know what sort of God mine is; I suspect that you believe there is no greater perfection than such as can be explained by the aforesaid attributes. I am not astonished; for I believe that, if a triangle could speak, it would say, in like manner, that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular. Thus each would ascribe to God its own attributes, would assume itself to be like God, and look on everything else as ill-shaped.” - SPINOZA (in a letter to his friend Boxel, 1674) * “All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” - ALDOUS HUXLEY
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Quotations on man-made gods - ancient and modern
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MAN-MADE GODS
Quotes from ancients and moderns
“Ethiopians imagine their gods are snub-nosed and black; Thracians imagine theirs as blue-eyed and red-haired.” - XENOPHANNES
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“When you say that if I deny, that the operations of seeing, hearing, attending, wishing, &c., can be ascribed to God, or that they exist in Him in any eminent fashion, you do not know what sort of God mine is; I suspect that you believe there is no greater perfection than such as can be explained by the aforesaid attributes. I am not astonished; for I believe that, if a triangle could speak, it would say, in like manner, that God is eminently triangular, while a circle would say that the divine nature is eminently circular. Thus each would ascribe to God its own attributes, would assume itself to be like God, and look on everything else as ill-shaped.” - SPINOZA (in a letter to his friend Boxel, 1674)
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“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” - ALDOUS HUXLEY
