# God was a typo. Worship Dog. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294 "2006-08-26T04:38:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/21 "2006-08-26T13:27:55Z")
If Dog created the world in six days, when did he create the fire hydrant ? (question asked by Flaxxie, my Labweiller) ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/22 "2006-08-26T13:59:12Z")
So, it’s a dog’s life? ::: fleas thread ::: ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/23 "2006-08-26T14:13:41Z")
So, does this mean that the mention of The PuppyGod by **Unintentionally Blank** [in This thread](http://http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7509237&postcount=34) was actually an unintentional slip as to the true nature of things? Who knew. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/24 "2006-08-26T14:20:04Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] Do Catholics worship the greyhound [/QUOTE] Catholics pray for the intercession of the Blessed Cat. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/25 "2006-08-26T14:31:51Z")
So, does this make Mary the dogma? ---
**Author:** ![Sad\_and\_Deranged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Sad\_and\_Deranged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sad_and_Deranged)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/26 "2006-08-26T15:55:52Z")
Firstly… welcome to the boards! (Even though I haven’t really officially been around for that long, myself). Second… I worship cats. I always thought they were the holiest of all creatures. The cutest and the fuzziest too. Now, are you telling me when I thought I was worshipping my lord and master out of love, it was really the devil in disguise!!! Please tell me that isn’t so!!! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/27 "2006-08-26T16:39:14Z")
Another cat person checking in. Welcome to the Dope…heretic! ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/28 "2006-08-27T03:33:25Z")
You may redeem yourself by giving the\*\* canonical\*\* interpretation of the religious phrase _dog-eared_ as it relates to the turning down of pages in a Holy Book. [/QUOTE] Bolding mine. You misspelled canineical. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/29 "2006-08-27T03:34:27Z")
May Dog bless my crappy coding! ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/30 "2006-08-27T16:37:18Z")
[QUOTE=Hal Briston] So, does this make Mary the dogma? [/QUOTE] You win, hands (pause, paws) down! 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/31 "2006-08-27T18:27:27Z")
Meow! I am a cat person. I acknowledge the utility and even soulfulness of dogs at times, but their servile desire to please is not the model we should be emulating. The kind of blind authoritarian worship dogs exemplify is not the sort of thing that free people offer. Every time you bow to a hierarchy, you put Humanity further into the ancient chains of the Slavemaster and Boss, and the terrorists win. Live free or die! No dogs. No Masters. ---
**Author:** ![bundykala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@bundykala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bundykala)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/32 "2006-08-28T05:04:35Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Meow! I am a cat person. I acknowledge the utility and even soulfulness of dogs at times, but their servile desire to please is not the model we should be emulating. The kind of blind authoritarian worship dogs exemplify is not the sort of thing that free people offer. Every time you bow to a hierarchy, you put Humanity further into the ancient chains of the Slavemaster and Boss, and the terrorists win. Live free or die! No dogs. No Masters. [/QUOTE] So you’re saying we should be following the example of people who do not allow others to dictate them as opposed to those who take pleasure in pleasing others, with a more peaceful attitude? That’s like picking Hitler over Gandhi! ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/33 "2006-08-28T21:34:11Z")
Maybe it wasn’t a typo. Maybe someone was dyslexic. ---
**Author:** ![Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Alive\_At\_Both\_Ends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alive_At_Both_Ends)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/34 "2006-08-28T21:56:52Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Catholics pray for the intercession of the Blessed Cat. [/QUOTE] Then why did they create the Spaniel Inquisition? ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/35 "2006-08-28T22:15:49Z")
[QUOTE=Alive At Both Ends] Then why did they create the Spaniel Inquisition? [/QUOTE] Our chief weapon is surprise! Surprise and fleas…! Our two chief weapons… ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/36 "2006-08-29T01:26:43Z")
[QUOTE=bundykala] So you’re saying we should be following the example of people who do not allow others to dictate them as opposed to those who take pleasure in pleasing others, with a more peaceful attitude? That’s like picking Hitler over Gandhi! [/QUOTE] Peaceful is not subservient. You cannot halp others unless you find your own power first. Slaves do not make reliable confidants. Flattery breeds resentment in the flatterer and distrust in the flatteree. Hitler was a prime example of the authoritarian we should eschew. He enslaved whole populations, aided by propaganda that fed the emotional dependency of millions while undermining their autonomy. Gandhi, on the other hand, practiced _satyagraha_, “soft power”, power-with, rather than power-over. He wanted every Indian to find his or her own inner power and, almost incidentally, working tohether, they would throw off the British yoke. I will bow to no monster-dog. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/37 "2006-08-29T22:19:24Z")
I have a beagle that wonders why any one could doubt. He can ignore people with disdain. Lower forms bothering him. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/38 "2006-08-30T17:39:31Z")
> [@](#): > > This is payback for all of you stealing my soul and a substantial amount of my free time. When you get to 10K posts, get back to us about having no free time. Until then, you, sir &/o madam, are a slacker. Welcome to the Boards! ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/39 "2006-08-30T18:23:46Z")
Wow! I guess that makes **dogbutler** like a prophet or sumpin, huh? ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294/40 "2006-08-30T18:47:35Z")
That explains the Chewsades to recover the Bark of the Covenant. Those transcribing monks needed better copy editors. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-was-a-typo-worship-dog/370294.md?page=3)