How to be God

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You will have noticed that on the front of this guide to the most important subject on earth (and, indeed, in heaven), something odd has happened to Michelangelo's Deity. He is no longer He. This is because George Mikes holds that Man created God, not the other way round, and can only have modelled Him - sorry, Her - on the one all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving being we have all met: Mother, as experienced by the infant. George Mikes has written many books. One thing they have in common, in addition to being very funny: sooner or later, in all of them, he will be rude about someone's pet Sacred Cow. After he has been rude he will sit back and wait for the brickbats, and he has gone on record as being disappointed because none has ever arrived. Nothing has he ever received but good-humoured amusement. For this new book he may, at last, get his brickbats, because it is serious as well as funny. It is a critique of mankind's religious attitudes by a committed rationalist. Like all... Tovább

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You will have noticed that on the front of this guide to the most important subject on earth (and, indeed, in heaven), something odd has happened to Michelangelo's Deity. He is no longer He. This is because George Mikes holds that Man created God, not the other way round, and can only have modelled Him - sorry, Her - on the one all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving being we have all met: Mother, as experienced by the infant. George Mikes has written many books. One thing they have in common, in addition to being very funny: sooner or later, in all of them, he will be rude about someone's pet Sacred Cow. After he has been rude he will sit back and wait for the brickbats, and he has gone on record as being disappointed because none has ever arrived. Nothing has he ever received but good-humoured amusement. For this new book he may, at last, get his brickbats, because it is serious as well as funny. It is a critique of mankind's religious attitudes by a committed rationalist. Like all the best non-believers, George Mikes is firmly on the side of the angels, so religious people ought to find much to agree with in what he says; and anyway he is not rude about God, but about the men and women who have endowed Her with such mystifying qualities. Nevertheless, if you happen to be a member of any faith which worships an omnipotent and omniscient Deity, you will find yourself being teased - and sometimes even being taken to task - in these pages. The publisher undertakes to forward any retaliatory brickbats to the author, provided postage is supplied. Vissza