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 +[[Image:God.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Detail of [[Sistine Chapel]] fresco ''[[Creation of the Sun and Moon]]'' by [[Michelangelo]] (completed [[1512]]).]]
 +[[Image:Birth Venus Botticelli.jpg|left|thumb|200px|''[[The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)|The Birth of Venus]]'' (detail), a [[1486]] painting by [[Sandro Botticelli]]]]
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 +"[[No gods, no masters]]"
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"[[I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance]]" -- Nietzsche in ''[[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]'' "[[I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance]]" -- Nietzsche in ''[[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]''
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"[[If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him]]"--Voltaire "[[If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him]]"--Voltaire
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 +"The [[Religion in ancient Rome|various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world]] were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosophers as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful." --[[Edward Gibbon]]
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-[[Image:God.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Detail of [[Sistine Chapel]] fresco ''[[Creation of the Sun and Moon]]'' by [[Michelangelo]] (completed [[1512]]).]] 
-[[Image:Birth of Venus Botticelli.jpg|right|thumb|200px|''[[The Birth of Venus (Botticelli)|The Birth of Venus]]'' (detail), a [[1486]] painting by [[Sandro Botticelli]]]] 
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'''God''' most commonly refers to the [[deity]] [[worship]]ped by followers of [[monotheism|monotheistic]] [[religion]]s, whom they believe to be the [[Creation (theology)|creator]] and ruler of the [[universe]]. '''God''' most commonly refers to the [[deity]] [[worship]]ped by followers of [[monotheism|monotheistic]] [[religion]]s, whom they believe to be the [[Creation (theology)|creator]] and ruler of the [[universe]].
-[[Theology|Theologians]] have ascribed various attributes to God, including [[omniscience]], [[omnipotence]], [[omnipresence]], perfect [[Goodness and evil|goodness]], divine [[simplicity]], and eternal and necessary [[existence]]. He has been described as [[Corporeal|incorporeal]], a personal being, the source of all [[moral obligation]], and the "greatest conceivable existent".+[[Theology|Theologians]] have ascribed various attributes to God, including [[omniscience]], [[omnipotence]], [[omnipresence]], perfect [[Goodness and evil|goodness]], divine [[simplicity]], and eternal and necessary [[existence of God|existence]]. He has been described as [[Corporeal|incorporeal]], a personal being, the source of all [[moral obligation]], and the "greatest conceivable existent".
== Namesakes == == Namesakes ==
-*''[[Concerning the surface of God]]'', a chapter in Alfred Jarry's ''[[Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician]]''+*"[[Concerning the surface of God]]", a chapter in Alfred Jarry's ''Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician''
*''[[To Have Done with the Judgment of God]]'' by Antonin Artaud *''[[To Have Done with the Judgment of God]]'' by Antonin Artaud
 +==Etymology==
 +From Middle English, from Old English ''god'' (“deity”) (akin to Old High German ''got'' (a rank of deity)), originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, both from the Proto-Germanic ''*gudą'' (compare Dutch ''god'', German ''Gott'', Danish ''gud''), from the Proto-Indo-European ''*ǵʰuto-'' (“invoked (one)”), from Proto-Indo-European ''*ǵʰewH-'' (“to call, to invoke”) or ''*ǵʰew-'' (“to pour”). Not related to the word [[good]].
 +==Dicta==
 +*[[But if cattle and horses and lions had hands]]
 +*[[Man created God in his own image ]]
==See also== ==See also==
 +* [[Atheism]]
* [[Anthropotheism]] * [[Anthropotheism]]
* [[Divine countenance]] * [[Divine countenance]]
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*[[Religion]] *[[Religion]]
*''[[Our Gods Wear Spandex]]'' *''[[Our Gods Wear Spandex]]''
-*[[But if cattle and horses and lions had hands]] 
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The Birth of Venus (detail), a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli
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The Birth of Venus (detail), a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli

"No gods, no masters"


"I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance" -- Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra


"God is an infinite sphere whose center everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere"


"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him"--Voltaire


"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosophers as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful." --Edward Gibbon

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God most commonly refers to the deity worshipped by followers of monotheistic religions, whom they believe to be the creator and ruler of the universe.

Theologians have ascribed various attributes to God, including omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, perfect goodness, divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. He has been described as incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent".

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Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English god (“deity”) (akin to Old High German got (a rank of deity)), originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, both from the Proto-Germanic *gudą (compare Dutch god, German Gott, Danish gud), from the Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto- (“invoked (one)”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewH- (“to call, to invoke”) or *ǵʰew- (“to pour”). Not related to the word good.

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