God: A Biography | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

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1. On what is Western civilization built?

The belief that God created humankind in His own image.

2. Although many Westerners have lost belief in God, what continues to set them apart from other cultures?

The religiocultural legacy.

3. To what literary character does the author compare God?

Don Quixote.

4. What can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?

Insight into the Western ideal of character without having to subscribe to the religious trappings of Judaism or Christianity.

5. What do both Jews and Christians concede without blasphemy?

The Bible may be appreciated as literature.

6. Believers adore God as the origin of what?

All virtue.

7. To what have believers grown accustomed?

God 's inner anxiety in the way they are drawn to complex human beings more so than the boring "centered" ones.

8. What does humanity reflect?

The multiplicity...
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