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- fluidfoundation, on 07/21/2008, -25/+217The doesnt sound like the Great Noodly One to me. The secret's not in the name, its in the sauce.
- Crazysticks, on 07/21/2008, -9/+110It's a trap.
- woxidu, on 07/21/2008, -3/+69America prays for god to defeat our enemies. Our enemies pray for god to defeat us... Someone's gonna be disappointed; Could it be... everyone?
~George Carlin - BookmasterIce, on 07/21/2008, -8/+61People mistake God for being in human Form
they say he created human in his own image.
Which one ? - ian.gaenssley, on 07/21/2008, -6/+59RAmen.
- hauntedchippy, on 07/21/2008, -2/+41Don't spoil the ending!
- badbyte80, on 07/21/2008, -75/+112psst...there is no god.
in short - waste of time. - whaught, on 07/21/2008, -5/+39The idea that god is male, female, or in this articles case, both is absurd. Why would 'god' have any notion of sex at all. That doesn't even make sense.
That said it seems we created god in our image rather than the reverse. - Renolc, on 07/21/2008, -2/+34"So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them."
Genesis 1:27
Sounds pretty straight forward to me. - Hetman, on 07/21/2008, -7/+37Even if it is not true, religion is still fascinating.
- BookmasterIce, on 07/21/2008, -5/+34so..He's.. i mean, uhh... im confused.
- TheMidnight, on 07/21/2008, -4/+31Yeah that would almost work if the Bible were written in Modern English between 4000 and 2000 years ago.
- ReDBuLLCuRT, on 07/21/2008, -6/+33I quote Bill Hicks; "How ***** scientific."
- N00F, on 07/21/2008, -0/+25it's pronounced 'Sklee' or 'Sklur'
- ostracize, on 07/21/2008, -3/+21You might want to read it again because it doesn't say anything like that.
- inactive, on 07/21/2008, -15/+32I think this is an exciting theory and concept.
- Sagags, on 07/21/2008, -9/+25For having such a large atheist community digg sure loves articles about god.
- ElGanyan, on 07/21/2008, -6/+19Hai, I'm the internets. You guis must be new here. Welcome!
- inactive, on 07/21/2008, -0/+13It hasn't taken two thousand years, and this guy hasn't discovered anything new. This is the kind of thing that a slew of kids run into in Hebrew school early on.
And on top of that, the tetragrammaton (the four letter name of god as is described in the article), spelled in latin YHVH and pronounced in Hebrew something close to "Yahweh" is not "unpronouncable" in the modern meaning of not having a mandible capable of making the noise it represents. It's un SPEAKABLE according to Jewish tradition, which holds that only the high priest of the true Temple in Jerusalem may ever utter it. Since there is no more true Temple in Jerusalem (only the western wall remains), there can be no high priest of it, and since there can be no high priest, the name can not be spoken "legally".
Really guys, its ok to learn a little about Judaism before you go believing hacks like this guy and his retarded media following. - inactive, on 07/21/2008, -3/+15"Thou shalt have no other Goods before me."
God was first in line for both the iPhone and the Wii. - jdh24, on 07/21/2008, -4/+16you don't prove that something doesn't exist. you prove that something does exist. there's no proof that god exists, so therefore it must be logically concluded that there is likely no god.
- h0ser, on 07/21/2008, -6/+18the problem is that the word was still created by man. It's not like god came down and wrote that four letter word. It was something that a human designated to be the name of god. Trying to decipher it and somehow prove god's true name is silly.
- ehrlich, on 07/21/2008, -0/+12>To deny the possibility that we have creators is the same as
> claiming that the earth is flat or that we are the only civilized
> beings in the entire universe.
Not quite, as there is plenty of evidence for the earth being not flat, and our understanding of the universe suggests that there might be lots live in the universe.
But we could not find a hint of an creation. - RobotBuddha, on 07/21/2008, -3/+15I think the reason a lot of us became atheists in the first place was finding mythology interesting. I enjoy religion in the same way I enjoy, say, batman. It's a collection of interesting stories and morality plays. You don't have to actually believe any of it happened to enjoy the fictional universe either describes.
- TsuruchiBrian, on 07/21/2008, -2/+14Digg also loves Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. We (most of us) know it's not real, and are not likely to kill anyone else over something make believe.
- hauntedchippy, on 07/21/2008, -2/+13Whilst you're right that occams razor isn't the best approach you are naive if you think "god did it" is the simplest explanation because it uses the fewest words. An omnipotent supreme intelligent being is much more complex than no omnipotent supreme intelligent being.
- inactive, on 07/21/2008, -1/+12::throws up::
- Rippleeffect, on 07/21/2008, -4/+14The "image" wouldn't be a physical or visual one, but one based off of personality and the ability to reason. You have the capability for love because God has that capability.
http://www.comereason.org/theo_issues/theo080.asp
Some more reading along those lines. - ApokalypseNow, on 07/21/2008, -2/+12@masterm1nd
Creationism is not an explanation. An explanation tells why something is one way instead of an alternative way. But creationism does not rule out any alternatives, since a creator God could have done anything. Because of this, creationism adds nothing to any argument. Thus, creationism is an unnecessary entity and, by Ockham's Razor, should be eliminated. Also, the scientific explanation only requires one assumption - that the universe is internally consistent. After that, everything is based on evidence, not assumptions.
In any case, there's no evidence to support the idea that the supernatural exists, much less any particular flavor of it, so all forms of creationism, xtian and otherwise, even if they were explanatory, are based on many more assumptions (that the supernatural exists, that a particular flavor of it exists, that that the deity or deities of that flavor of mythology created us, etc). - daschupa, on 07/21/2008, -0/+10pfft...dyslexic Jewish people have known this for years.
- inactive, on 07/21/2008, -11/+21Wow that is a trip!
- CaseyB, on 07/21/2008, -0/+10The enormous balls don't give you a clue?
- RobotBuddha, on 07/21/2008, -2/+12There's never anything clear about something that's been translated from a dissimilar language. Most especially when the original text is many thousands of years old.
- BaudiIROCZ, on 07/21/2008, -17/+27I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
-John Lennon - dlinkwit27, on 07/21/2008, -0/+9So it took 2000+ years for people to figure out to try to read it backwards? Isn't that like cryptology 101?
- Myonosken, on 07/21/2008, -1/+10Still kind of weird its taken them two thousand years to try reversing it...
- MrSketch, on 07/21/2008, -5/+14"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
- Mohandas Gandhi - rivethaus, on 07/21/2008, -5/+14Retsnom Ittehgaps Gniylf - not getting it
How do you tell the sex of a spaghetti? - Zuggy, on 07/21/2008, -4/+13Religion is still an interesting study. It gives those willing to step outside and look in a unique look at human nature.
- Zuggy, on 07/21/2008, -10/+18Not a waste of time. Much of the evil that religion perpetuates is based on the idea that the Judeo-Christian god is male therefore men are greater then women. If this were to become a mainstream ideal it would put women on equal footing as men religiously speaking.
- Hnnnnnghhh, on 07/21/2008, -1/+9Bill Hicks is the only prophet worth quoting.
- angusm, on 07/21/2008, -17/+25Considering that this is a deity that allegedly likes to send messages to His creation by causing statues to weep blood or His mother's face to appear on bagels, merely flipping the syllables in His/Her name probably counts as a relatively direct and unambiguous approach.
I guess we have to change the wording of the Lord's Prayer: "Our Father or Mother ..." - YancyFryJr, on 07/21/2008, -8/+16"God thus becomes a dual-gendered deity, bringing together all the male and female energy in the universe, the yin and the yang that have divided the sexes from Adam and Eve to Homer and Marge."
I'm agnostic, but bonus points for the Simpsons reference. - latrosicarius, on 07/21/2008, -3/+11Yeah, except for all the parts where Jesus calls him "Father"... oh wait... we're ignoring the New Testament?
- Shoebox639, on 07/21/2008, -1/+9First of all, there was ample EVIDENCE to suggest that earth was round. The powers in Europe at the time (RCC), claimed that the Earth was flat and since they got all their info from God himself, were infallible.
What makes you so sure that you've got this religion thing right this time? Every civilization that ever existed believed in a different deity than what we have today. What makes Christian right over Scientology, Hinduism, Bhuddaism, Norse mythology, Greek mythology or the Flying Spaghetti Monser?
And as to where do I find this information? I don't have to find this information. The burden of proof is always on the theists, who claim God exists. There's not a shred of proof you can offer that says that there in fact is a supreme deity out there. I don't have to prove that there is no God. Once you prove to me with EVIDENCE that there is a god, I'll happily believe you. - BoneheadFarker, on 07/21/2008, -3/+10I think the word you are looking for is hermaphrodite.
- inactive, on 07/21/2008, -1/+8o_O
- mistermaster, on 07/21/2008, -4/+11They were afraid of uncreating the world.
- oldgal, on 07/21/2008, -4/+11Yet when I observe the different religions, it looks much more like man creates god in their image.
- inactive, on 07/21/2008, -3/+10His big magic theory is reading it backwards.
Well hmm, dog backwards is.. #@!!!
OMG I've discovered somthing!
An another note in Hebew:
Anee =me
Me=who
Who=he
He=she -
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