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When Humans Play God, Nothing Good Can Come From It!

Richard The Chwalek
5 min readJun 30, 2022

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Yet humans have been playing god for over one hundred thousand years.

Photo by Ben White on Unsplash.

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Actually, around that time 100,000 years ago humans may have created [the first] god. While a religious person would disagree with this scenario, anthropologists can put together a well-reasoned argument for it. Either way, the playing god blasphemy was probably conjured up by the person who created the 2nd god. Anyway, what I meant to say was the playing god card has been dealt out forever. So let’s look at its dealing history.

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The early human that carved the first animal likeness was told that he, she, or they, were playing god. So too was the human who first used fire to cook, crafted the wheel, or trained a dog to help in hunting. Even the nutcases who came up with bloodletting or chickenpox parties, got the playing a [sadistically stupid] god card. Finally, others who were also likely confronted with the playing god epithet includes those who figured out blood transfusions, penicillin, vaccines, and the gene editor, CRISPR. Is a real god actually angry with us for supposedly attempting godliness in so many ways?

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Most people who believe in a Christian god know that humans were made in the image of god. Now, don’t let that godly designation go to your…

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Richard The Chwalek
Richard The Chwalek

Written by Richard The Chwalek

Mostly serious stuff w/ bits of sarcastic fluff. I wish more could be told yet bios have room 4 short & bold. You’ll see less length isn’t my greatest strength.

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