Man made God in his Image

The fundamentalist has very definite ideas about God.

He knows what God likes.
What God dislikes.
Whom God will punish.
And who is God’s enemy.

The Moslem fundamentalist will wield the Koran.
The ‘Born Again’ Bible freak will shake the Bible at you.
The Militant Hindu will thump you over the head with scriptures written and unwritten.

And they all have so much in common.

The religious bigot will tell you:

That there is only one God and that it’s his one.


That there’s only one book [or compendium of books] that’s true, and of course it’s the one he has.
That only those who listen to his God are the chosen, the elite, the saved.


That all others are barbarians, idolaters, kafirs, outcastes.
That his God doesn’t like variety, free thought, or independent reasoning


That everybody who has a different God is attacking his God and his Religion
That his God is all-powerful.

Strange, these all powerful Gods

are imprisoned within the confines of their little books
These Gods have no other thoughts or will or freedom

than those attributed to them by their own prophets.