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 .

色诺芬尼认为，荷马的神具有所有有缺陷的人类所具有的不道德和不文雅的特质，而这些几乎不应该成为崇敬的对象。

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 ' .

色诺芬尼对于惟一神持有模棱两可的概念，认为惟一神“在形体和思想上与人类毫无相似”，但是“却凭借他的理念摆布一切”。