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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Part 6, Chapter 3

By Milan Kundera

Part 6, Chapter 3

When the narrator was little, he used to look at the image of God in an illustrated Bible. God looked like a man, and had a mouth.
But the narrator used to worry that, if God had a mouth, he must eat, and if he eats, he must defecate. This sacrilege worried him greatly.
He points out that Gnostics in the second century thought the same way, and posited that God ate, but did not defecate.

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