Graphic Heavy: Images of Some of the Deities Worshiped on Earth:

[MineralMan]

Below is a sampling only. It would be impossible to post them all. Take your pick. Choose none. Choose them all. They're all powerful, have countless people who believed and had faith in them. Some people, however, have faith in none of them. The choice can appear to be impossible, so many simply write them all off as mythology. Others write off all but the ones they like. Pretty much nobody thinks all of these images represent real deities. As an atheist, I can't believe that any of them exist. Take your pick:

[Raster]

1. There must be a mistake...

...I am not represented in any of these graphics.

[MineralMan]

2. Well, as I said, I couldn't show them all.

We are all gods now.

[trotsky]

18. Don't feel bad.

My wife isn't either.

[RKP5637]

3. That 3rd one looks like group sex on a cloud. Next to the last one, The Village Boys?

[MineralMan]

4. Cultural norms dictate appearance, I think.

There are some cuties in the Polynesian ones, to be sure. I wouldn't worship them, but I wouldn't mind dating a couple of them.

[RKP5637]

5. Yeah, I was thinking the same! n/t

[MineralMan]

6. It'd be, well, heavenly!

In that last image, the two human looking ones appear to be grumpy. Maybe because they didn't have any female gods? Who can say?

[RKP5637]

8. Yeah, there's no fun in the last picture! If a guy came up to me with a cross wanting to have a

good time, well, I'd be damn suspicious!

[MineralMan]

17. Just say, "Sorry. Not my kink."

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. They forgot the most important deity in the modern world:

Praise George from whom all blessings flow
Praise Him all peons here below...

[RKP5637]

10. Definitely!!!! n/t

[struggle4progress]

9. There are religious traditions in which all such images are disapproved

Judaism, for example, teaches that male and female were created in the image of the Creator and then gives as law not to make any likeness of anything, in heaven or on earth or in water, to worship

This has been misunderstood: when Pompey sacked Jerusalem, he entered the innermost part of the temple, looking for a statue of their god, but he found none and reportedly concluded they were atheists. Pompey, trapped in his own views, missed the meaning

In God’s Image: B’tselem Elohim
Jewish texts teach that all humans are created in the image of God.
BY ERICA BROWN
... a young man studying in a yeshiva went barefoot to the doorstep of a philanthropist. He knocked on the door and asked the man for the money to buy a pair of shoes. The philanthropist merely slammed the door in his face. Humiliated, the student went back to the beit midrash, the house of study. Over time, his hard work paid off, and he became a scholar of great repute. The very same philanthropist approached him many years later and asked if he could be his patron and publish his first book. The student-turned-scholar remembered this man's face and said in sadness, "No thanks. There was a time when you could have had me for a pair of shoes" ...

[MineralMan]

11. There are religious traditions for all sorts of nonsense.

And yet, images exist. I doubt the makers were struck down for making them.

[struggle4progress]

13. You're free to regard my post as nonsense. But I think you miss something

important when you do so

[shadowmayor]

12. What? No FSM

The Pastafarians will take umbrage at this slight (not)! I find the image of Ganesh intriguing. Bet he likes beer too?

Interesting post - thanks!

[AtheistCrusader]

14. Pele is hot.

What?

[Act_of_Reparation]

15. ...

[AtheistCrusader]

19. Pretty low-brow. My bad.

[MineralMan]

16. Yowsa!