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Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith is worshiping a different god.

Suzy Kassem

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The quotation argues that religious division is, in part, a human-made problem created by turning the divine into an “image” or a named, bounded concept. By invoking the Creator’s alleged counsel against images and naming—an idea associated with aniconic and anti-idolatry traditions—the speaker suggests that concrete representations encourage people to mistake differing symbols and vocabularies for wholly different deities. The underlying claim is universalist: many faiths may be oriented toward the same ultimate reality, but sectarianism arises when language, iconography, and doctrine harden into identity markers. The quote thus critiques idolatry not only as worship of objects, but as attachment to conceptual forms that fragment spiritual understanding.

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