God is a humanoid of sorts?

I refer again to yesterday's blog item and my comment that to allow for the existence of God is "to allow for the existence of an undetectable, untraceable, unlocatable, invisible, untouchable, unhearable (unless you're a politician), unsmellable (if the word exists) being".

One of the problems dealing with Christians in particular on this is that God is forever seen in terms of being a human of sorts, with human features, human emotions (love, anger, occasionally an irrational need for revenge usw), and yet cannot be identified in this humanoid form.

Some of the nonsense emerging from some Christian believers is the idiotic notion that Christ (the humanoid son) will return to earth one day. Oh good! And no doubt if he did, going round performing magic tricks (sorry "miracles"), telling wacky stories ("parables") and healing the sick for free (what would Rupert Murdoch's disciples think of that?), he could well be locked away as a threat to society, a charlatan, a meddler, a revolutionary socialist etc. Or exposed in the conservative tabloid press as a danger to us all!

Or maybe he would not be recognised at all, and end up with a nothing job where he could impress a few workmates and that would be about the size of it.

The greater likelihood is that someone did exist in Palestine teaching these things some 2000 years ago, but the stories have been exaggerated for affect to appeal to an audience that was prepared or to be prepared for something fantastic and beyond belief. And while we are here can any of the believers actually PROVE THAT THE VIRGIN BIRTH OCCURRED? And may I ask, also, how you can prove it?

Where Buddhism has it over Christianity is that the addiction to the belief that humanity is a superior species does not necessarily apply. All creatures according to Buddhism have this impossible to find thing called a "soul". Swat a fly, kill a sheep in a slaughterhouse, run over a cat even by accident, you are according to Buddhism playing with Karma. And losing!

Merge Buddhism with Christianity for the moment and ask yourself why Christ has to come back as a human at all - it was bad enough last time (assuming it happened, which is open to question). Why not come back as an ostrich? Or a tortoise? Or a mosquito - for a very short time, of course. Or as a bull in India - now that last one sounds like fun!

In fact it might already have happened. That bacon sandwich you were eating last night? You know what the pig was before it was slaughtered? At this point at least the follows of Judaism and Islam suddenly have a view that they can share - they would never have committed such a "cardinal sin"!