The dangers of an anthropomorphic God

Kenneth Leong
3 min readJan 4, 2020

More and more, I see the case for atheism.

I am not an atheist. I am more a Taoist. Taoism does not use anthropomorphic images of God. The Tao is not a person. In the Abrahamic religions, not only is God portrayed as a person, humans are also said to be created in the image of God. As such, human are given dominion over the earth. The book of Genesis has this passage:

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild

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Kenneth Leong

Author, Zen teacher, scientific mystic, professor, photographer, philosopher, social commentator, socially engaged human