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Aristides summarizes the contradictions he sees in Greek and Egyptian religion.
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Images are sawn, polished, shaped, repaired, melted, and broken by their makers.
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If the artisan controls the image, the image cannot be the artisan's Creator.
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He rejects the notion that El Elyon is needy for human sacrifice, libation, temple provision, or slaughter as though divine life depended on human supply.
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He also confronts the philosophical claim that the many gods share one divine nature.
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If they truly share one harmonious nature, he argues, they should not kill, imprison, abduct, injure, or defeat one another.
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If Greek civil laws justly condemn theft, murder, incest, coercive sex, and adultery, then mythic gods praised for those acts stand condemned by the laws of their own worshipers.
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The chapter distinguishes myth, natural allegory, hymn, and cultic story, but finds none sufficient to overturn the central argument: the Creator must be greater than the things and stories attributed to created powers.