The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
Interpretation
This quote critiques the idea of humans being created in God's image, suggesting it can lead to conflict among various religions.
Arthur C. Clarke points out that the belief that 'God made man in His own image' can be provocative and potentially dangerous, acting like a 'time bomb' that undermines the foundations of faith for many people. This assertion may create divisions and misunderstandings among different religious beliefs, leading to tension and strife.
In practice
In a lecture on theology, one might cite this quote to discuss differing interpretations of divine creation.
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
It might be a very human thing across the board, but we, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story protects a certain perception as we pick sides.
He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
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