USA Africa Dialogue Series - Humanising God and Teaching Him to Speak Our Own Language

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The title for this essay, as part of the design to enact surprise,
brings up the following issues:
1. God does not possess a language or sign system;
2. God has been made by humans who thereafter try to give him one of
their attributes – speech-using, since they themselves are homo
loquens – otherwise, he could have other sign system or not have any
at all, as in (1);
3. Making God (in our own image, linguistically) makes it possible for
us to interact with him; and
4. Making God in our image makes it possible for us to privatise or
claim him for ourselves."

Fresh from my blog, Eke na Egwurugwu. Read the full piece at:

https://obododimma-oha.blogspot.com/2018/10/humanising-god-and-teaching-him-to.html

Thanks.

--- Obododimma.
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B.A.,First Class Honours (English & Literary Studies);
M.A., Ph.D. (English Language);
M.Sc. (Legal, Criminological & Security Psychology);
Professor of Cultural Semiotics & Stylistics,
Department of English,
University of Ibadan.

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Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies,
University of Ibadan.

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