My darling partner says that God must have a penis.

Who am I to disagree?

Man, that thing must be BIG!

the 'PEN-is' mightier than the sword[but putting a human face upon god is a miss?-nomer]dwelling upon his genitelia,must be linked with i could not look upon his face ]

forgive me lord[i know what i say[and i know what i do]
but it will take a lot to wake up these aberant children of yours

you have displayed admirable patience
you have made life from dust[that returns to the dust once our life term is expired][and we ALL are reborn[according to our fruits[loves]

its a neat system[science tells us a few degrees'change'is enough to destroy it all]yet there are intelligent people out there who fail to see;some believers say it is because you make dull who thee chose[i know its not so]

i know you lord are of love[that you love life]
that when your beloved[favoured]angel refused your command[to bow before MERE clay[re refused from his adoration of you,he refused to bow before mere clay]

now in mans amasing ignorance they feel he tempts man to sin[saying the D-evil made me do it[they blaspheme thee further by saying that your beloved lamb dying[that his blood washes us free of sin[but lord knows mere washing cannot clean a veiled[vile]evil heart

but those GOOD and true realise your still quiete voice is all loving,that you are not to be'controled by spell nor spelling of words,
that you live not in the pages of dead books BUT IN LIVE TIME,real time[all through 'time' in the ever NOW#];live time[all the time],not to judge life but to sustain all living to live

indeed that you may be known in REAL time for all time[and beyond]
known by your sure signs[life sustained by thy light
and logic[sustained by your love[into wisdom]

but only they who know your great love for thy creation
can ever hope to know thee
that we need only TRY to love it[as thy does]

to unite into the one atonement[at one meant]anytime we hear thy bloving[living]logical voice;con-scienc[in word or in life]
well may we say

AHHH-men
we see the joke
pen-is empty

The crucial points are defining what you consider a monotheistic 'god' to be. As it stands, it's merely a one syllable word with various interpretations.

Allow me to put forward a chain of reasoning, which I don't think can really be disputed. If anyone can pick holes, feel free, but please, leave the ritualistic scriptural nonsense at the door. Even if you believe them, scripture bears no relevance to this chain of logic.

As Bugsy pointed out - if god has all these characteristics, it would have to be as big as the universe, or even simply BE the universe.

To me, intelligence and omniscience are incompatible. Intelligence is learning. Omniscience can't learn - to admit god is an intelligence, is to admit there are things god does not know.

If there are things god does not know, then by simple reasoning, god is capable of making mistakes.

Therefore, we are left with two possibilities - a god that is omniscient, but can't be called a decision-making intelligence, or a god that can make decisions but is capable of making the wrong ones.

I suspect most religious seem to reject the latter. I dunno why, it seems like a much better explanation to me, but hey, whatever floats your theistic boat.

On the other hand, if we have a god that is all seeing, but can't make changing decisions, then we may as well have nothing. That would merely be fate - nothing can change its direction, it's predestined. Therefore, everything we do is irrelevant.

So, enter the 'free will' clauses of various world religions. If indeed free will has a role to play, then the 'all seeing' god has just been scotched. If we have free will, then god doesn't know what we're going to do.

Which means we're left with a god capable of screwing up, which adds a more 'human' dimension as it were ;).

Perhaps instead of praying, we should be offering advice and helpful hints from below. After all, I think it's been a while since the customer feedback forms were filled in.

" ... He wouldn't have lasted ten seconds in the witness box. ... "

Some of these people? All it comes down to is hearsay. Someone said in the book therefore its true. No evidence or otherwise and the final catch is they have to bow their ____ing heads to the priest.

So, so gross. Oooooo!

Is this part of the reason why poms won't have catholics in the top job? Completely irrational and all they care about is their stupid little "rules" and their barstardised book.

Makes me wonder what the other "ignobles" were thinking at ol Henry # 8's time. Mayb *Runner,* for Christ's sake let him get into a bit of the burning bush lest he take up butchering peasants for sport on the weekend.

But no, something to do with having to bow yr ____ing heads and they care more about that than anything else.

Not that I approve, but u can see the frustration of the butcher's in beijing. Serious population problem creating serious problems but no, u have these halfwits running around compliantly bowing to some noodle's anti contraception view - a precedent set by a former representative of the great noodle.

Now how is that any different in essence to Islamic Sharia? That is to say, irrespective of the law of the state, becoz the delusional twit in rome says no contraception and no abortion that when they get hold of someone vulnerable, they seek to influence them not according to the law of the state, but according to their own view.

"?" The mind boggles. I haven't read it, mayb I shld. A local Uni txt:
"Why men seek Lords"

And for *BoazY* especially, I offer the local Islamic version of the Abraham story, noting that despite the same alleged historic origins, the end result is quite different and yet the kinks and parallels can be seen. So ..

*Ibrahim* was a silly poppet. And, becoz *Ibrahim* was a silly poppet he was also poor and could not afford a goat for the blood ritual, that in the "magical etheric" release of energy, he might see into the Spirit world and know El Goddo's plan for him. Times were tuff.

So, he takes it upon himself to knock off one kid for the greater benefit of the rest of the family, being convinced that above all things, that El GoddO demands that the ritual be done and commune had.

Fortunately, someone's got wind of what's going on, rung the bell, and the local "rich" guy (the angel) turns up with a goat, sets silly Ibrahim straight and all is well.

The "magic" of the divine for these people is that everyone was in the right place at the right time and it all worked out.

Thereafter, for these simple folk, a "graven image" is not merely a picture on a cup or otherwise, but rather any "fallible" human concept/thing.

To them, El Goddo is just too awesome for "words."

Don't u find it curious that in the "Christian" version the point of the story is that *Ibrahim* bowed his head (and sent his child into some God Forsaken criminal war.)