Thursday, February 18, 2010

GOD! ?



Hello there readers! I wanted to do a GOD!? entry today but I didn't want to just do pictures today. So to start things of here is the first paragraph of Wikipeida's entry on God:

God is a deity in theistic and deistic religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity inpolytheism.[1] God is most often conceived of as the supernatural creator and overseer of the universe. Theologians have ascribed a variety of attributes to the many different conceptions of God. The most common among these include omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, omnibenevolence (perfectgoodness), divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. God has also been conceived as being incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent".[1] These attributes were all supported to varying degrees by the early Jewish,Christian and Muslim theologian philosophers, including Maimonides,[2] Augustine of Hippo,[2] and Al-Ghazali,[3] respectively. Many notablemedieval philosophers and modern philosophers developed arguments for the existence of God.[3] Many notable philosophers and intellectuals have, by contrast, developed arguments against the existence of God.

I have also been looking out for pop cultural views and references to God and have discovered that while American society isn't always interested in God there is a large interest in the supernatureal. So I googled that and the picture up top is the gist of the first 20 pages or so.

The last thing I've included for today is a picture of one of the most beautiful and moving buildings I have ever been in, the Hagia Sophia. It was originally a church (this is when I visited it), then it became a masque and now it is a museum but it is very closely associated with God (and it's just gosh darn pretty) so I thought I'd include a picture of it.

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