# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/41 "2003-03-05T16:33:05Z")
Ever since I read the thread on Andy Kaufman I kinda picture him like that: someone who created a vast joke that only he gets. ---
**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, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/42 "2003-03-05T22:50:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DreadCthulhu \* > \*\*Well, I just look in a mirror… Anyways, nice pics \*\* bong \*\*, but now I can’t make my Lovecraftian jokes. \*\* Like what? I don’t get how those pictures prevent you from making any Lovecraftian Jokes. ---
**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, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/43 "2003-03-05T23:12:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bong \* > \*\* > And this would probably be satan > > [http://www.nightserpent.com/lovecraft/nyarlathotep.jpg](http://www.nightserpent.com/lovecraft/nyarlathotep.jpg) \*\* No wait, HERE’S Satan! [http://www.evilsponge.com/spawn/malebolgia.jpg](http://www.evilsponge.com/spawn/malebolgia.jpg) And HIS lackey… [http://www.evilsponge.com/spawn/cog.jpg](http://www.evilsponge.com/spawn/cog.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![mrsface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@mrsface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsface)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/44 "2003-03-06T00:01:50Z")
I’ve always thought Charles Darwin looked remarkably like God. ---
**Author:** ![mozart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mozart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozart)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/45 "2003-03-06T02:08:05Z")
A bad tempered, old guy that looks like Richard Harris and who sleeps alot. Which is luckly for us. ---
**Author:** ![bong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@bong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bong)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/46 "2003-03-06T02:12:42Z")
Or god is a guy in a KKK suit. EEP! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/47 "2003-03-06T10:32:02Z")
Nelson Muntz, laughing at me and getting ready to boot me off the planet. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/48 "2003-03-06T11:12:37Z")
I’m not sure She even exists. ---
**Author:** ![bong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@bong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bong)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/49 "2003-03-07T01:23:22Z")
A Sauvastika. With a flaming eye in the center. ---
**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:** [March 8, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/50 "2003-03-08T00:15:41Z")
How do I picture God? At least 1200 dpi. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rmbnxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rmbnxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rmbnxs)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/51 "2003-03-08T03:26:57Z")
Well, she’s black. ---
**Author:** ![NaSultainne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NaSultainne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NaSultainne)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/52 "2003-03-08T03:45:13Z")
I can’t seem to picture God as a man in any form, actually. However, in scripture He is described this way: As I looked, thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took His seat. His clothing was as white as snow; the hair of his head was white like wool. Daniel 7:9 ---
**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/53 "2003-03-08T03:51:01Z")
I recall a dream I had when I was a tyke. I went into the fellowship hall at my Church, for a potluck dinner. Mom was carrying me. God was there. He was, oh, I dunno… 30, 35ish. Dark hair. Moustache. Glasses. In retrospect, sort of what Ned Flanders would look like IRL, but not as dorky. God was very, very happy with me for singing the ABC song. ---
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/54 "2003-03-08T04:51:57Z")
God, hmm, a sparkly essence in all the things around me. Satan, hmm. My ex-girlfriend. Or vice versa – hard to explain. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/55 "2003-03-08T05:39:56Z")
Which one? Could you be more specific, because I picture most of them somewhat differently. ---
**Author:** ![martin\_ibn\_martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@martin\_ibn\_martin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/martin_ibn_martin)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/56 "2003-03-09T23:37:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*[hijack] How do Muslims picture God? (or alah?)[/hijack] \*\* The Creator is not subject to comparison to anything a mortal can conceive. Muslims usually don’t need to form some visual image for Allah, but are content with Hu’s Signs. We gots Quranic verses to that effect Martin ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/57 "2003-03-09T23:46:52Z")
I picture God as a pure, white light shining through everything. And, yes, I’m a Christian. ---
**Author:** ![SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@SpaceGhostofArrakis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceGhostofArrakis)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/58 "2003-03-09T23:58:36Z")
I can almost guarentee he doesn’t look like this: [http://www.transload.net/~sparkwheel/faith/god.jpg](http://www.transload.net/~sparkwheel/faith/god.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047/59 "2003-03-10T01:48:04Z")
Well, I don’t exactly believe in its existence; however, if it\* does exist, I think he’d be kind of like a big cloud of energy and colors (looking kind of like the pictures of far away universes). \*“It” is used as opposed to the traditional “He” because I think of it as having no gender. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-picture-god/159047.md?page=2)