You're most welcome! ;-) I figured it was time to move beyond Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and other stuff like that...

I also find it funny that people always get hung up over this business of God claiming that man was made in God's (his or her) own image. Why not? What if everything is made in God's image?

And how could it not be, since God is presumed (by many) to be omnipresent and presumed to be the source of everything?

If God had been talking to a rabbit, and a rabbit had written a rabbit's Bible explaining everything, don't you think that the rabbits would be saying that rabbits are made in God's image? I think they would. And they'd be right, too! ;-) The only possible mistake they could make about it would be to blithely assume that ONLY rabbits are made in God's image! Now there would be a ridiculous assumption! But I bet that's what they would assume.

And that is the assumption which religiously minded humans have made. They made the human race exclusive in that sense. I don't think that is the case at all. Either everything is made in God's image or nothing is. (and one has to, of course, decide exactly what the word "God" means....which varies wildly, according to whoever you happen to mention it to...everyone's got their own idea about that. People who object to religion usually hold an idea of God in their own minds that is absolutely unbelievable and ridiculous, and they laugh at it, and then assume that anyone who is religious believes in that idea of God. This allows them to just dismiss any and all religious people as the simple-minded fools they'd like them to be. It also obfuscates any possibility of actually discussing the subject in a useful or enlightening manner...since you can't have a useful discussion between people who consider each other to be morons.