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Would God still be popular if he was non-bipedal?

Asked by evelyns_pet_zebra (12923points) July 17th, 2009

After recently reading about the Humboldt squids off the coast of California, I had a thought. The gods of history all seem to pretty much be bipedal. Whether man was made in god’s own image, or god was made in man’s own image; that cannot be proven. What if, the god that is responsible for all life and creation in this universe looked like a Humboldt Squid? What if god was in fact a Humboldt Squid? Would he still have the appeal that Jesus and the rest of the approximate 2,500 known gods in human history have? Some ancient gods were represented as beasts, such as the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, and the mythical Old One of H.P. Lovecraft’s tales, the malevolent Cthulhu. Why do we no longer worship animalistic gods?

My point is this: If god is real, and let’s assume for the purpose of this discussion that he is, and he is not bipedal like we are, but is in fact a squid-like being, is he still going to be as popular with humans? Could you worship a god that looks like calamari?

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