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"What that play is about, as much as anything" says Albee now, "is the misuse people put religion to - God in the image of man, and the effrontery of that".
In a similar vein, Whitehead speaks of the idolatry of fashioning God in the image of imperial rulers: "The Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar" (Whitehead 1978, 342).
Suddenly I see clearly what Genesis 1 27 has taught me: Each one of us is "male and female" as created by God, in the image of God, who is both male and female and also beyond these binaries.
Yet Yod has overtones of the ultra-human, much more fully in the Divine Image than anyone since the original Adam, who was made in Our Image, said God, in the Image of God, male and female, androgynous as God is androgynous.
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But the Greeks imagined their gods "in the image of mankind", not as fearsome, nebulous abstractions.
I just quietly stopped believing, if not in God, than in the image of God that had been impressed on me since birth.
Regardless of where you stand theologically as a Christian, this is about treating all people like they are made by God and in the image of God.
Similarly, members of B'Tselem (Hebrew for "in the image of [God]"), are also in need of close personal protection.
From Michael Brown to Rekia Boyd, these bodies are offered in hopes that they will satisfy a false god built in the image of white greed, who has a never-ending appetite for Black Death.
And so it goes--to the last syllable of divine attribution: any image of God is created in the image of humanity.
Gods share so many characteristics with humans that it has been argued that gods were made in the image of man.
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