Never heard Reverend Bob claim that one. I mean yeah, it's in character, and if he's somewhere on the outside looking in, I don't doubt he'll be claiming it from here on in. But no, it doesn't narrow it down. As I keep saying, Xenophanes nailed it two and a half thousand years ago:FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 11:35 pmDoes it narrow things down any further if we highlight his wonderful boast that because of his magnificent IQ his friends have sent their wives to him for extramarital satisfaction?
Or did Bobevenson claim that one too?
But mortals suppose gods are born,
Wear their own clothes and have a voice and body.
The Ethiopians say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
While Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each would shape
Bodies of gods in the likeness, each of their own kind.
Everyone (usual yeah buts apply) who believes in a 'supreme' god believes they are more like their supreme god than anyone else is.