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The Tao of Poo: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera. (Part II)

Posted 07.23.2001 by Dave (11578)
The following passage is taken from The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. English translation copyright ©1984 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. You should buy this book!
Did you read part I?

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When I was small and would leaf through the Old Testament retold for children and illustrated in engravings by Gustave Dore, I saw the Lord God standing on a cloud. He was an old man with eyes, nose, and a long beard, and I would say to myself that if He had a mouth, He had to eat. And if He ate, He had intestines. But that thought always gave me a fright, because even though I come from a family that was not particularly religious, I felt the idea of a divine intestine to be sacrilegious.

Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely, that man was created in God's image. Either/or: either man was created in God's image -- and God has intestines! -- or God lacks intestines and man is not like Him.

The ancient Gnostics felt as I did at the age of five. In the second century, the great Gnostic master Valentinus resolved the damnable dilemma by claiming that Jesus "ate and drank, but did not defecate."

Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil. Since God gave man freedom, we can, if need be, accept the idea that He is not responsible for man's crimes. The responsibility for shit, however, rests entirely with Him, the Creator of Man.

PROCEED TO PART III

Joseph (not verified) -- 07.23.2001

God is all good, and everything he creates is good. Shit, on the other hand, is waste. God would not produce waste, so even if God ate, God would digest and absorb all of which God ate, producing no waste.
Shit is merely that which cannot be used by the body, and therefore is a condition of only finite, mortal beings.

javi (not verified) -- 07.25.2001

if jesus and god don't poo, shouldn't they be really fat? or do they just puke like bulimics? where else does the food and drink go?

Che (not verified) -- 07.15.2002

i'm a year late here, but that's cool: Jesus DID poo. after all, he was a man. he was 100% human and 100% God. "But that's 200%!" you say. that ain't the way it works.

"either man was created in God's image -- and God has intestines! -- or God lacks intestines and man is not like Him."

what a weak argument!!

gotta run,

Che

aed (not verified) -- 01.16.2003

What if god dumped in heaven, would his poo come flying through the clouds and land on earth? Would you see big chunks of corn in it or is god able to digest corn?

Mmanion (not verified) -- 01.16.2003

I am very religious. And to think that you people actually wonder if God poops disturbs me. I know for a fact he does, on my chest. And it is filled with the yummy goodness that any humans poop is.

DungDaddy (1369) -- 03.01.2005

What a bunch of geniuses.

Coprolalia (not verified) -- 03.19.2008

Great website--I haven't laughed so hard in ages (and it was as satisfying as a massive ...) In gratitude, I offer the following: according to Valentinus's epistle to Agathapous ("Jesus' Digestive System"), Jesus "was continent, enduring all things. Jesus digested divinity; he ate and drank in a special way, without excreting his solids. He had such a great capacity for continence that the nourishment within him was not corrupted, for he did not experience corruption." Do you feel edified?

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