This is why I don’t like the meme of a ‘blind idiot god’, it’s really easy to read it in a way, if you actually understand the implications, which also implies that humans, on average, are even lesser, somehow even worse then a ‘blind idiot’.
Of course most potential writers aren’t exactly super geniuses nor willing to spend days thinking about a single phrase so it’s probably unfair to expect them to evaluate any metric such as intelligence along more then 2 or 3 dimensions simultaneously, hence they never would have caught the potentially self-defeating nature of the phrase.
The comedic effect also probably is quite unreliable among large portions of the population, as any mention of the word ‘god’ taken in vain would be quite serious to them.
This is why I don’t like the meme of a ‘blind idiot god’, it’s really easy to read it in a way, if you actually understand the implications, which also implies that humans, on average, are even lesser, somehow even worse then a ‘blind idiot’.
Of course most potential writers aren’t exactly super geniuses nor willing to spend days thinking about a single phrase so it’s probably unfair to expect them to evaluate any metric such as intelligence along more then 2 or 3 dimensions simultaneously, hence they never would have caught the potentially self-defeating nature of the phrase.
The comedic effect also probably is quite unreliable among large portions of the population, as any mention of the word ‘god’ taken in vain would be quite serious to them.