When I was in school (UK in the early 60s) while waiting for the physics master to come into the class, we used to stand on an ebonite stool, charge up from the van der Graaf generator, get someone to turn on the gas tap and play Greek gods. It was fun…
Most English translations say “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”. So maybe we can have other gods *after* Him? Go to church on Sunday (or temple on Saturday or mosque on Friday or whatever), and *then* hop over to the local Wiccan grove or whatever?
Actually, having other gods *after* capital-G God *was* allowed, at least originally. Your guess is right! Ancient Judaism wasn’t exactly monotheistic, the idea was that Jehovah was the *supreme* God. It was more like “Hey, it’s cool if you have a few other gods, just remember I can curb-stomp them whenever I want.”
Well… the texts mention Him as alone throughout, and there’s rules against making images of anything in Heaven. There’s other celestial beings but they were never near His level.
It’s also complicated because of His conflation with huge metaphysical concepts, and that, if you take the God created everything interpretation, Occam’s Razor would be the others were corruptions of stories about Him. This is supported through the linguistic fact other words for deities were co-opted to mean Him, and that when talking about Molech and children being sacrificed to that deity, He calls it a disgrace to His Name, and the Name of God is never treated as a general sort of thing, but something close and personal.
If I can’t hurl thunderbolts and release krakens, I’m just not gonna play.
I’m sure you can smite people in other ways. Or make something even cooler than a kraken.
You can use giant squids… I mean that’s still pretty close to a kraken and it looks adorable from far away
and possibly tasty like other squips.
No, they taste of ammonia, bleagh!
like the Leviathan, maybe.
We need a God action figure.
There actually do exist Jesus action figures. Look ’em up. Not sure about God, though.
Mainly because Jesus has an ‘assumed’ face that they can put on an action figure. God doesn’t seem to ‘have’ one by biblical and record standards.
He kinda looks a lot like Zeus when neither of those apply, though.
They had a God one in Moral Orel…dunno about the real world though. Probably.
Moral Orel had a lot of things.
H’oh geez.
second panel makes it for me.
Arrrrr!
They’re more like guide lines!
When I was in school (UK in the early 60s) while waiting for the physics master to come into the class, we used to stand on an ebonite stool, charge up from the van der Graaf generator, get someone to turn on the gas tap and play Greek gods. It was fun…
We used to just hit each other with the rods you held up to the generator after they touched it. I like that idea better.
I wish I went to school where you did.
I’m pretty sure Humans want God to “Play Human”.
He did once, remember? We killed him.
Yeah and a few days later, he got back up, took his ball and went home…
Word is He’s coming back and will be playing Hard Ball and be playing to win.
…but so far, he’s only really _proven_ himself the ultimate Procrastinator. And Adam, ‘suggestments’ should get you a Nobel Prize.
Right on. That was the only part of the strip I was really proud of.
What? Can’t reply to a reply?
Rat, I agree wholeheartedly; suggestments is brilliant!
Most English translations say “Thou shalt have no other gods before me”. So maybe we can have other gods *after* Him? Go to church on Sunday (or temple on Saturday or mosque on Friday or whatever), and *then* hop over to the local Wiccan grove or whatever?
He also said no to “on the side”, so I guess behind is the only position left.
Actually, having other gods *after* capital-G God *was* allowed, at least originally. Your guess is right! Ancient Judaism wasn’t exactly monotheistic, the idea was that Jehovah was the *supreme* God. It was more like “Hey, it’s cool if you have a few other gods, just remember I can curb-stomp them whenever I want.”
Well… the texts mention Him as alone throughout, and there’s rules against making images of anything in Heaven. There’s other celestial beings but they were never near His level.
It’s also complicated because of His conflation with huge metaphysical concepts, and that, if you take the God created everything interpretation, Occam’s Razor would be the others were corruptions of stories about Him. This is supported through the linguistic fact other words for deities were co-opted to mean Him, and that when talking about Molech and children being sacrificed to that deity, He calls it a disgrace to His Name, and the Name of God is never treated as a general sort of thing, but something close and personal.