# If you met God what questions would you ask him?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 11, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323 "2022-02-11T16:38:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/21 "2022-02-11T19:07:39Z")

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Could you flesh out the “Let us make mankind in our image” thing?

Who’s us?

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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
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Why is your aim so bad?

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**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\
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The answer to that is in the film _Dogma_.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hOYkdoSxazQ/hqdefault.jpg "Why Are We Here?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOYkdoSxazQ)

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**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/24 "2022-02-11T19:13:53Z")

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> [@Crane](#):
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> Could you flesh out the “Let us make mankind in our image” thing?
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> Who’s us?

Wait, this was a team effort?

Need a new quarterback, buddy.

Dan

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**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/25 "2022-02-11T19:19:10Z")

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Did you design Quantum Mechanics in order to run all possible simulations more efficiently?  
Have you deduced whether _you_ are part of a higher level simulation?  
What’s so great about beetles?

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**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/26 "2022-02-11T19:19:18Z")

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That certainly clarifies matters.

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/27 "2022-02-11T20:50:55Z")

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“Is Riemann mad at me?”

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/28 "2022-02-11T21:04:28Z")

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Is it really Marsellus Wallace’s soul in that briefcase?

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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/29 "2022-02-11T21:15:40Z")

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Why do you let innocent babies die?

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**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/30 "2022-02-11T21:25:21Z")

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Are you a male, as suggested by the O/Ps question? If not, are you female?

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/31 "2022-02-11T22:15:22Z")

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When you created quantum mechanics, you subcontracted that to Coyote or the Monkey King, didn’t you?

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/32 "2022-02-11T22:41:53Z")

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Remember when someone stole my lunch from the work fridge back in '94? Who was the fucker who did that?

mmm

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/33 "2022-02-11T23:47:03Z")

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Where is the nearest extraterrestrial civilization?\*\* And how to contact them if friendly or how to counter it if hostile.

\*\* IIRC some famous scientist pointed at similar questions that alien abductees should ask, a lot of the closest stars could then be examined to check if what they claim was told to them was true.

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**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/34 "2022-02-12T01:22:27Z")

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Who ARE The Brain Police?

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**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/35 "2022-02-12T01:35:56Z")

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Can you make a boulder so heavy that even You can’t lift it?

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**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/36 "2022-02-12T01:42:08Z")

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> [@Dung\_Beetle](#):
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> “Is Riemann mad at me?”

I’m not sure why, as it’s pretty cool that you navigate via a celestial snapshot. You also eat shit, so there is that.

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**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/37 "2022-02-12T02:14:58Z")

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> [@lobotomyboy63](#):
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> Can you make a boulder so heavy that even You can’t lift it?

Beat me to it!

So, instead:

“Why’d you make the sex bits part of the excretory functioning, too? Kinda gross, if I’m being honest.”

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/38 "2022-02-12T02:43:29Z")

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THANK YOU! Not everyone appreciates that.

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/39 "2022-02-12T05:03:02Z")

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What were last week’s Lotto numbers?

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-met-god-what-questions-would-you-ask-him/959323/40 "2022-02-12T06:17:03Z")

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I am your God!

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