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AndyPL, your post was moving. Wow. + rep.
As for the God thing; yeah, it seems a little more likely that some highly-developed mammals created a diety in their image rather than the other way around. I don't have a problem with ideas of spirituality, or of divinity--these things inspire a sense of wonder and suggest to us their is something very special about reality--but I very much dislike the anthropomorphic constraints we put on them. In other words: we've taken our sense of wonder and molded it into a radiant human form. A limiting form. I do not believe we should need a God, much less a human one, to appreciate the specialness of reality and of our place in it. We should break open these monuments to ourselves, these human-shaped mythologies and dogmas, and set the wonder free.
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