Another Big Big Thread of Religious Discussion

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From a Christian standpoint, your theory is pretty sound. "Let us make man in Our own image" could certainly refer to God giving humans similar but weaker versions of His power, especially since God rarely appeared physically on earth. Being made in the intellectual and spiritual image of God would account for the human race's ability to advance so quickly over time, regardless of whether we were created in the forms that we have now or evolved from something else.

This is actually sort of similar to Robert Heinlein's thou art God theory, expressed in Stranger in a Strange Land. However, there are some differences in that anything that can understand (even grass and insects) is God.

Personally, I feel that any form of the word god is a symbolic representation of the creative power of our mind and our collective unconscious. Which is sort of my own spin on the thou art God theory.

This is a little off topic but, have you ever heard Christian heavy metal? DAMN I hate that stuff. Where I live, tons of people are addicted to it. It's sickening. I'm not an atheist,(not that I'm saying I hate atheists, just to be clear) I'm Roman Catholic, but I've heard some of it, and I find it extremly offensive, and all-around moronic. Anybody else got an opinion they'd like to share on this stuff?

While I've never listened to any christian heavy metal, it sounds almost as much an oxymoron as a christian psychologist, but there are plenty of those around.