It is as you say. We have a tendency to personify concepts - a form of poetic lazy-speak.

@rcandlish we do! being an ex-english teacher and magazine editor, and still being a writer, i find things like that jump out at me, which makes me an occasional pain in the butt. i yell at the tv a lot.

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They will only do this while it is socially acceptable to do so. The concept of God is becoming more and more like an old toothpaste tube, squeezed beyond use.

@rcandlish last time i looked it was going strong, and worse, getting stronger and more obnoxious and invasive.

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@genessa It always seems darkest just before the dawn. The study of the Genome has put pay to the old fabrication that God made Man as a special creation in his own image, and the evidence will continue to build and build. I sense a distant rumbling, an avalanche of Fact burying all such dishonest fictions. By the end of this century those of a religious bent will be looked upon as troglodytes (and not in a Platonic sense!) For the moment the slow drift towards secularism continues.

@rcandlish i wish i shared your optimism.

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