And of course when we turn our attention to golf, we think of Tiger, the former Olympian god recently made man.

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" But perhaps the philosopher who best understood the transcendental possibilities of play was Epicurus' forbear, Plato, who wrote: "Man is made God's plaything and that is the best part of him.

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Mormonism objects to making a big deal of the morbid agony of Jesus on the Cross at the expense of the more cheerful apparition of Man-made-into-God.

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In it, he thanked God for the technological advances that have made it possible for the "Man of the Shroud" to be seen by, and reach out to, so many people.

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This near-universal appetite is evident not only in what people say (even in conservative Muslim countries, where God-given sharia can be more popular than any law made by man, people tell opinion pollsters they want to elect their own governments).

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Finally, we should heed what Jay Richards eloquently discusses in his book, " Money, Greed And God": We must be careful to compare our man-made systems to what is possible here on Earth, not to what is possible only in Heaven.

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Thank God, ecosostems are in the main more resilient than their man-made counterparts.

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