Did God have any other kids?

[Cartoonist]

He's God after all. That means he can wear the best clothes and drive the best cars. Maybe we don't hear about his kids because he never married any of their mothers, including Mary.

[BlueJazz]

1. Yes, Mr. Bernie Sanders

[TeeYiYi]

2. Well, according to the book(s)...

...he only had one (only begotten) son. But daughters... there could be a boatload.

TYY

[Cartoonist]

3. Cleopatra

Kim Novak

[TeeYiYi]

4. True...

TYY

[Arugula Latte]

5. In a 14-billion-year-old universe of 100 billion+ galaxies,

you'd think that ol' God would have gotten around a lot and that he is the Baby Daddy of more than just the one carpenter dude from the Judea of only 2,000 years ago on one little planet in an unimaginably vast and old universe. I mean, would God have put off having kids for 14 billion years only to have the one magical hairless ape homo sapien offspring? Let's just use logic to think about that.

[Binkie The Clown]

6. Nope. Out of billions of light years and galaxies beyond counting...

everything important that he ever did was done within a few hundred square miles of desert. And not only that, he picked the few hundred square miles that the "chosen people" happened to live in. As for all the billions of non-chosen people, god just said "Screw 'em!" Why he created them just so he could say "Screw 'em!" is beyond me. But then god works in mysterious ways.

Oddly enough, almost every culture that has its own religion considers itself to be the "chosen people", and considers its own neighborhood to be the only place in the universe that god ever did anything important.

[Arugula Latte]

13. It's pretty amazing, isn't it?

That Grand Plan of God's, well, it's a doozy all right.

I do wonder at what point God drew the line. Like, were Australopithecus just too damn primitive to be the chosen hominids? Did Neanderthals just miss the boat? I feel a bit bad for them, as well as for the billions of un-chosen homo sapiens.

[Binkie The Clown]

36. Well clearly T-Rex was not the chosen dinosaur. n/t

[Yorktown]

34. The provincialism of the Abrahamic religion is so ridiculous it should be obvious..

But it will take a few generations more of college educated kids to become obvious, I guess..

[DonViejo]

7. If you believe in G-d, I would suggest the other children are...

all of us but, there are exceptional children; Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day, Nelson Mandela, Hillel, the Ba'al Shem Tov, Maimonides and Mother Theresa to name but a few.

[packman]

8. And a shitload of other children to balance the scales

Vlad the impaler, Genghis Khan, the Borgis, Ivan the Terrible, Richard Speck, Adolf Hitler, Tojo, and many others. God just didn't crap out beautiful rainbows. And in between those exceptions are the rest of us.

[Leontius]

16. Oh come on, the Borgias on a list like that quite a stretch

[packman]

17. Well, maybe not as obvious as the rest but---

"... the reign of Alexander VI, they were suspected of many crimes, including adultery, incest, simony, theft, bribery[citation needed], and murder (especially murder by arsenic poisoning).[1] Because of their grasping for power, they made enemies of the Medici, the Sforza, and the Dominican friar Savonarola, among others. "

and

:As Alexander VI (One of the popes) , Rodrigo Borgias was recognized as a skilled politician and diplomat, but was widely criticized during his reign for his over-spending, sale of Church offices (simony), lasciviousness, and nepotism. As Pope, he struggled to acquire more personal and papal power and wealth

From Wikipedia which goes on about them-





.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Borgia

[Leontius]

46. Most of the accepted stories about the Borgia's were based on slander and rumor

Julian propaganda. As for the Sforzas' one the most brutal and pathologically violent families of the age Savonarola well his history is not exactly one that is to be admired.

[Arugula Latte]

11. How about kids on the billions of other planets likely to support advanced life in this universe?

Or are we The Chosen Species from The Chosen Planet?

You'd think that God would have given a shout-out to the dinosaurs, at least. They were around for 230 million years (and survive today in the form of crocs and birds and so on), but we've only been here for 200,000 years. A mere blip. Buuut, I guess we are Extra Special in the eyes of The Deity.

[Warren Stupidity]

19. The Vatican recently claimed that while there

likely is intelligent life elsewhere, only one jeebus.

They addressed the damnation of innocents problem 500 years ago, more or less, rewriting shit such that those without prior knowledge of the one true church etc. don't have to roast in hell forever. Those with access to the right religion remain doomed.

[mr blur]

14. Logic? Wrong group (nt)

[rug]

9. I bet you were a riot in the fifth grade.

Judging by the responses.

[Arugula Latte]

12. Well, enlighten us with your answer, then.

We'll all be waiting with bated breath!

[cleanhippie]

30. I think that's all you get from fourth graders.

[rug]

31. You'll know when you get there.

[cleanhippie]

32. I stand corrected. You also get "I know you are but what am I"

Oh, and some stalking, too!

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Apparently, he kept a Chinese bit on the side ...

https://books.google.com/books/about/God_s_Chinese_Son.html?id=PoOybrfcmdUC

[edhopper]

15. Why did he choose

such a backward time and such a strange land?

[rug]

18. I only want to know

[cleanhippie]

20. Stop asking the difficult questions.

You just keep getting the same idiotic responses.

[edhopper]

21. In this case

rug got the reference.

[cleanhippie]

22. I'm sure you're familiar with the saying about broken clocks.

[struggle4progress]

23. My Father's children

[Iggo]

24. Ain't we all SkyDaddy's kids?

[LTX]

25. Genesis 6:1-4

"When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years." The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown."

[KansDem]

26. Brian?

The Life of Brian

[Orrex]

27. My understanding is that all God's children got rhythm.

Further, all God's children got swing.

[AlbertCat]

28. Do avatars count?

Vishnu has many.


But the 10 best known are:

of course
Rama
Krishna
Buddha

and
Parashurama

all men

Vamana is a dwarf

the others are either animals or half animals ...do they count?
Matsya
Kurma
Varaha
Narasimha

and
Kalki (eternity)
is supposed to appear at the end of Kali Yuga

There are many others....


I'm no Hindu, but I find it interesting..... especially how avatars of Vishnu.... that come to Earth to play their role to maintain the world and preserve Dharma.... are not unlike Christ.

Interesting ideas that make good myths and stories..... not to be taken literally.... unless you believe in supernatural gobbledygook.

[Angry Dragon]

29. read The Last Day by Glenn Kleier

[MellowDem]

33. Personally...

I wonder about all the other sentient civilizations across the universe that have popped in and out of existence over the course of billions of years. Did he have a child for each of those? And why doesn't he ever mention them?

I also wonder how conscious an organism must be before God decided it was time to give it a soul. Dolphin level?

[Angry Dragon]

38. How do you know that everything does not have a soul??

[MellowDem]

39. I don't, but many beliefs think only humans do...

But even Homo sapiens didn't just pop into existence, I wonder at what point in evolution they would get souls under such a belief, and what about Neanderthals etc.?

[Angry Dragon]

40. I would think the first order of business would be the definition of a soul

[Yorktown]

35. God never had a kid. Because God is gay.

Follow my reasoning:

1- Jesus is God (in another persona, let's not split hairs)

2- Jesus is gay (see video below)

ergo, 3- Gay God never had a kid

(unless he adopted one, but that's not the main line)

[rug]

37. What are you talking about? Many, many gay people are parents.

[Yorktown]

41. You really should read posts before answering them

I did write "unless he adopted one"

And you can check: my post is unedited.

[rug]

42. Oh, that's much better. The only way a gay person can be a parent is by adoption.

Do you ever read what you write?

I'm tempted to call it homophobia but for your cluelessness.

[Yorktown]

43. Straw man

Only a dishonest person would read what you did in what I wrote.

Or someone clueless.

Your pick.

Your time out hasn't changed your sanctimonious and aggressive tone.

[rug]

44. That's what you wrote. Own it.

A meta distraction won't salvage it, especially since you're not back twelve hours yet.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1282441

[Yorktown]

45. Please learn to read

I was referring to a gay man having children.

As of now, the route I mentioned -adoption- is the hugely predominant one.

The other existing possibilities are as of now marginal, some with ethical issues.