Creating God in your Own Image

They say that Man was created in God's image. I've read on a website: "Don’t make the mistake of creating God in your own image, you were created in God’s own image. You are the object of the Heavenly Father’s love—so much so that He created you in His very own likeness."

In "Bird by Bird", Anne Lamott talks about how nobody sits down and writes elegant first drafts. But then she mentions that she does know ONE person who does, but she and her friends do not like her very much. They do not think (and I quote) that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her.

What is funny is that she says that she mentioned this to her priest friend Tom. She said that he said that "you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

Whether or not that is an actual true exchange doesn't matter. What matters is that this is another prime example of the fineness of Anne Lamott's writing. It's probably one of the funniest lines I've read in a long time (excluding anything from "Pearls Before Swine" or on the show "Eureka").

There are all sorts of more esoterical questions around whether God really created us in his image and I am not going to get into it at all.... but I wonder just how much of religion is based on individuals creating God in our their image? Interesting question, is it not?