Good News: Researchers Now Know What God Looks Like

[MineralMan]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/973117/God-face-photograph-Christianity-what-does-god-look-like-study

A BIZARRE photograph of a young looking man represents the face of God, it has been spectacularly claimed by a group of US psychologists.
By SEBASTIAN KETTLEY
PUBLISHED: 12:47, Tue, Jun 12, 2018 | UPDATED: 13:00, Tue, Jun 12, 2018

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) constructed an astonishing portrait of God himself based on a survey of 511 American Christians.

The psychologists questioned a group of devout Christians to find out how they envision the face of God in their minds.

The surprising results of the study found God is not the archetypal bearded old man from Michelangelo’s paintings in the Sistine Chapel.

Instead, most people questioned seemed to think God looks like a young Caucasian man.

The article doesn't say, but I'm guessing the "devout Christians" they questioned there in North Carolina might have been white menfolk. You think? "Damn! That there looks like Beau, from over in Foxboro."

"And then, men created God. In their own image created they him."

[MFM008]

1. reminds me of the song

"What if God was one of us"
Just a slob like one of us.....

[MineralMan]

2. Yup. What if...

[3Hotdogs]

3. What, God can't afford a haircut? But then, again, is it possible to cut Superman's hair?

[3Hotdogs]

4. Anyway, that ain't good news. I thought the post was gonna be about the Catholic Church

declaring bankruptcy and folding.

[underpants]

5. Hold it. God is Brad Pitt?

Okay now "Meet Joe Black" makes more sense.

[NeoGreen]

7. No it doesn't.

[guillaumeb]

6. A very misleading title.

It amazes me that some progressive Democrats are so quick to attack faith, when faith is such an important part of the lives of so many progressive Democrats.

[NeoGreen]

8. Maybe it is because...

..."faith" has nothing to do with self identifying as a member of a progresive democratic caucus. I.e. there is no "faith" test to be progessive or democratic.

And that is something that can't honestly be said for the red team.

[guillaumeb]

10. You are incorrect in your assumption.

Unless you claim is that there is no progressive who is progressive because of faith.

[Act_of_Reparation]

32. That is more or less the claim I'd make.

Political ideology is largely determined by one's immediate peer group. Faith may reinforce those political positions, but I'd be really fucking surprised if it informed them.

[guillaumeb]

33. You might be surprised.

[Act_of_Reparation]

34. I doubt it.

But I understand your need to believe it.

[MineralMan]

13. See, Guy, it's a joke.

It's funny. You laugh at it, if you possess a sense of humor. My op had nothing to do with "faith." It had to do with a silly experiment to see how people visualized God.

Now, I could have shown the representation of God's buttocks as painted on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling. Even then, people had a sense of humor about such things. Here is that depiction of God mooning Moses:

[Voltaire2]

14. Idiocy.

What is being discussed here is idiocy. If you choose to conflate faith with idiocy that is your problem.

[MineralMan]

15. Maybe he was trying to reply to a different post,

one in which I mentioned faith. There are a couple of those in the group's thread list. Faith was not even mentioned in this OP.

Perhaps he meant to reply to this thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218295794

[Voltaire2]

16. It is pretty clear that mindfulness is not

a practice with this one.

[MineralMan]

18. Well, mindfulness is a difficult practice for many.

Distractions and misdirection fly at one from every compass point. It can be difficult to orient oneself in the midst of all that.

[Permanut]

9. It's about time!

We've known exactly what Jesus looked like since about 400 AD, what with all the portraits floating around. God doesn't look like his father, though, just sayin'.

[sprinkleeninow]

12. Now YER 'just sayin''.

Peoples here have been coppin' my shtick. 😄

In NC, they may liken God's image to Billy Ray Poole down the road a piece.

Just sayin'...

[marylandblue]

20. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

[sprinkleeninow]

21. True, true. Altho' I 've been told I'm inimitable.

Hmm, mb that's not quite a compliment?
😝

[keithbvadu2]

11. What did Jesus look like? It depends on whose living room wall his picture is hanging.

What did Jesus look like?

It depends on whose living room wall his picture is hanging.

[Voltaire2]

17. Why repeat the headline in the message?

Why repeat the headline in the message?

[keithbvadu2]

19. We must be reading different articles.

[sprinkleeninow]

22. Why are you pickin'?

Why are you pickin'?


Just sayin'...

[Voltaire2]

23. One line too many.

One line too many.

[sprinkleeninow]

24. You need a late night teevee variety slot to showcase your comedic gift.

You need a late night teevee variety slot to showcase your comedic gift.

[sprinkleeninow]

25. Tee many martonis. 🍸

Tee many martonis. 🍸

[Mike Nelson]

26. Oh, My God...

… it's my cousin Fred!

[MineralMan]

28. Say "Hey!" to him for me, OK?

[Mike Nelson]

29. Okay...

… I will. I'm going to try to be nicer to Him, also...

[Permanut]

30. Thanks, Mike Nelson..

I was hoping it wasn't my Brother-in-law.

By the way, I watched every Sea Hunt episode several times. Lloyd Bridges was da man.

[Mike Nelson]

31. Cool!

[Iggo]

27. Pipo.