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 Christianity convinces you you should feel ashamed of yourself for being creative enough to imagine your own personal version of what the word "God" means to you.

And it wants you to believe you should feel especially ashamed of yourself if your own definition of the word "God" falls outside the parameters it uses to box in such an infinite abstraction.

 Those parameters act like a skeleton onto which any image can be fashioned, whether it's in the form of flesh and blood like Jesus, or a Holy Ghost and heavenly father, "who art in heaven." And by "art" we mean the creative capacity we have to "believe" such a thing is as true as a four year old believing in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy. 

Such parameters also hide  from Christians the fact that each person is looking at a magnified projection of their own ideals, which are therefore as unique as they are, like they are looking in a fun house mirror that makes you infinitely large and powerful, and appear as if your reflection is "divine." The beauty that Narcissus fell in love with was not his reflection in the water, but how he came to believe he was made in the image and likeness of a god. 

This is why no two Christians can always agree about exactly what an infinite abstraction like the word "God" even means, because the word "God" itself can never be exactly defined without a reliance on other abstractions and paradoxes, which is why there are over 40,000 versions of the Christian brand of "God," and they can't stop arguing or killing each other - in a kind of spiritual Darwinistic survival of the fittest - over which definition of "God" is "the real slim shady." 


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