Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site convex.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!graham
From: graham@convex.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Is this the quote's source?? - (nf)
Message-ID: <45700013@convex.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 22:23:00 EST
Article-I.D.: convex.45700013
Posted: Thu Apr 26 22:23:00 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Apr-84 11:22:48 EST
Lines: 18
Nf-ID: #N:convex:45700013:000:679
Nf-From: convex!graham    Apr 26 21:23:00 1984

#N:convex:45700013:000:679
convex!graham    Apr 26 21:23:00 1984

I originally sought the source for the following quote:
"In the beginning, God created man in His image, and man -
not to be outdone - returned the compliment."

I have found the  following quote from Voltaire's "Le Sottisier: XXXII":
"If God made us in His image, we have certainly returned the compliment."

I think that this is the original quote, and the version I originally
gave is a paraphrase (unintentionally) created by the vagaries of
the speaker's memory.

The point is that the moving image of God which appears in the Bible
could well have been caused by the effect cited by Voltaire.

Marv Graham; ConVex Computer Corp. {allegra,ihnp4,uiucdcs,ctvax}!convex!graham