An entity with some supernatural powers. The usual suspects: Thor, Zeus, Yahweh, Quetzalcoatl.
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Ben, Jim defined what he means by a god by example. (Thor, Zeus, Yahweh, Quetzalcoatl, but *not* money.) The cooperative thing to do is to ask what these examples have in common, and extrapolate a definition based on what Jim seems to be getting at.
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The gods Jim named are old, nonexistent, not believed in by Jim, and shaped like humans, animals, or animal-human mashups. Money is none of those except old.
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>Money is none of those except old. ?!?!?!?!?!
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Money definitely is shaped like humans-animal mashups. Let's take US money since it's the example we're most familiar with. Face on one side, often an eagle on the other. Sometimes a building, which is admittedly neither a human nor an animal, but sometimes a temple to the god.
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(e.g. Lincoln on obverse, Lincoln Memorial on reverse.)
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Ancient coins likewise frequently depict later-deified kings.
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Yahweh canonically doesn't literally have a shape.
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On the reverse of the $10 bill is the US Treasury, both associated with the god Hamilton depicted on the obverse, and one of the chief temples of the US currency cult, rivaled only by the Federal Reserve.
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I guess the Mint would even more literally be a depiction of the body of money, or the birth of money, but the Treasury is definitely part of the mechanism by which money exerts power over the world.
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So, yes, coins have pictures of leaders and animals and gods on them, but they are themselves little pieces of metal.
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How is that different from statues of the god?
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sorry to be pedantic, but the statues of the god are *made* of metal and their *shape* is meant to represent the god. Money, by contrast, *is* the little pieces of metal, and the images represent "Abraham Lincoln" or "the Eagle", they're not pictures of something called "Money".
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