# How DO YOU Picture God? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 4, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047 "2003-03-04T18:37:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/1 "2003-03-04T18:37:13Z")
Despite all my efforts, sometimes I have a picture of God that is not too flattering…remember that “Far Side” cartoon? The one that shows God at his computer? It shows God (white beard) watching some dopey mortal (who is walking under a piano being raise up a building…the rope has snapped, and the poor schmuchk is about to be crushed. God is pressing a key on the board labelled"SMITE". Is this your picture of God…sorta like a clestial trickster? ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/2 "2003-03-04T19:20:51Z")
I picture a non-descript image floating above a bunch of guys lying on pillows in an opium den somewhere in Bejing. ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/3 "2003-03-04T19:36:18Z")
I keep picturing a 20-something year old guy watching baywatch, sitting on a leather lazyboy, masturbating and eating motza sticks. Then again I’m an athiest and I have issues with the bulk of humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Ivar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ivar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivar)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/4 "2003-03-04T20:40:49Z")
Who’s this “God” character? ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/5 "2003-03-04T20:42:27Z")
Usual beard in the sky, sort of scary but comforting at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/6 "2003-03-04T20:49:48Z")
I picture him exactly [like this](http://monty-python.virtualave.net/god.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/7 "2003-03-04T20:58:22Z")
I use a wide angle lens. He’s big. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/8 "2003-03-04T21:03:31Z")
A giant hat. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/9 "2003-03-04T21:08:09Z")
Neuroman, that picture was pretty “goddy”. I’m a’scared! ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/10 "2003-03-04T21:18:23Z")
I picture God as a somewhat short stocky white man in his mid thirties with a full head of short brown hair parted on the left, brown eyes, and a short, neatly trimmed brown beard. He wears a pale yellow robe. I have no idea how I formulated this image… ---
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/11 "2003-03-04T21:49:52Z")
I see etherial light and smoke…no physical form. ---
**Author:** ![Magickly\_Delicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magickly\_Delicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magickly_Delicious)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/12 "2003-03-04T21:58:49Z")
The image changes a lot. Lately, God looks a lot like [Robert Fulghum](http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/fulghum.html) to me. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/13 "2003-03-04T22:01:11Z")
I don’t have an image in my mind. I don’t want to develop an image of God and then find myself praying as much to that as I am go God. This is why I also don’t have pictures of Jesus or anything. I want no human’s vision as to what he would have looked like either. For some people, images of God(whichever they believe) in tend to take over the actual God. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/14 "2003-03-04T22:19:27Z")
_Who Is This ‘God’ Person Anyway?_ –Oolon Colluphid _If God had a face what would it look like and would you want to see if seeing meant that you would have to believe in things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints and all the prophets?_ –Eric Bazilian Sorry, no very clear image here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Quasar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Quasar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Quasar)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/15 "2003-03-04T22:26:30Z")
Being an atheist, I really don’t buy the whole “Heavenly Father” thing, but when I picture my version of a “higher power” I think of nature and the universe itself. Gaia and Ouranos. Mother Earth and Father Heaven. Not as actual entities but as ideas. Natural forces which shape our very lives. Don’t even get me started on Chaos. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/16 "2003-03-04T23:29:54Z")
From the back. ---
**Author:** ![bong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@bong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bong)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/17 "2003-03-05T01:31:39Z")
This guy. With “the fight song” playing as he sends people to hell for driving a red car on a tuesday. [http://www.nightserpent.com/lovecraft/statue.jpg](http://www.nightserpent.com/lovecraft/statue.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![bong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@bong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bong)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/18 "2003-03-05T01:34:43Z")
And he would make a good angel, if god looks like cthulu. [http://www.nightserpent.com/lovecraft/gug.jpg](http://www.nightserpent.com/lovecraft/gug.jpg) And this would probably be satan [http://www.nightserpent.com/lovecraft/nyarlathotep.jpg](http://www.nightserpent.com/lovecraft/nyarlathotep.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/19 "2003-03-05T01:38:28Z")
George Burns, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/20 "2003-03-05T01:43:08Z")
We had this as an assignment in theology last year–draw a picture of God. Being agnostic at that time, I drew a picture of the solar system and wrote in tiny little letters at the bottom, “If God exists, then he is in everything,” so as not to offend the die-hard Catholics who were present. One girl turned in a blank piece of paper. The theology teacher gave her a zero because she didn’t give an explaination for it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047.md?page=2)