Xenophanes if shit had a god , god would look like shit .
色诺芬尼：如果大便信上帝的话，那上帝看起来就会像大便。
In one of the earliest known expressions of cultural relativism , xenophanes remarked that homer 's gods were simply a reflection of homerian culture .
作为一种已知最早的对于文化相对论的表述，色诺芬尼认为：荷马的神只是荷马式的文化的一种简单的反应。
Homer 's gods , xenophanes complained , had all the immoral and disgraceful traits of flawed human beings and should hardly be the object of veneration .
Nonetheless , xenophanes clearly had enough influence to be remembered and mentioned by those that followed him .
尽管这样，色诺芬尼仍然因为其巨大的影响力而被他的后继者铭记和提及。
Xenophanes held some vague concept of a single deity that was ' in no way like men in shape or in thought ' but rather ' causing all things by the thought of his mind ' .
