The other day I was in a restaurant, and I mistook the lyrics to a song being quietly played in the background as singing "God is like tofu." This mistake made me laugh, but then I started thinking about this concept.
For those of you who cook with tofu, you know that it can come in a variety of textures and shapes. Moreover, tofu is pretty bland by itself: it tends to take on the taste of what it is cooked with.
It struck me that perhaps God really is like tofu. It seems the idea and perception of God's nature -or even if there is not God- take on the characteristics of the believers. There is an old adage that what someone says about another person says more about him/her than about the other person. Perhaps the same is true of our religions: what do different approaches to faith say about the societies and individuals that practice them?
