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Advice God
Part of a series on Advice Animals. [View Related Entries]
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About
Advice God is an advice animal image macro series featuring a portrait of an old man with grey hair and a long flowing beard. The images are typically captioned with text that denounces religion (often christianity) by pointing out apparent biblical contradictions and attributing mischievous behaviors to God.
Origin
The image of the old man comes from Michelangelo's artistic rendition of the Christian God in The Creation of the Sun and Moon, one of the many paintings made between 1508 and 1512 that adorn the walls in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican City, Italy.[1][2]
![5352.jpg](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/168/140/5352.jpg?1314654137)
According to Google custom search[11], the Advice God MemeGenerator[6] page has existed since at least August 29th, 2010. The first image submitted to MemeGenerator in the series featured the caption "Pigs? Shellfish? / Abominations."
![53b.jpg PIGS? SHELLFISHP? ABOMINATIONS memegenerator.net](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/257/624/53b.jpg)
Spread
Redditor kabukistar posted a compilation of Advice God images to the /r/pics subreddit[3] on October 9th, 2010. It was subsequently reposted to the /r/atheism[4] subreddit the same day, where it received 1,190 up votes and made it to the front page. A compilation of derivatives were posted on the entertainment blog Zoot Patrol[15] on December 23rd. The "fyeahadvicegod"[7] Tumblr was created on March 9th, 2011 and a round-up of Advice God images appeared on Ranker.com[5] on June 1st. An Advice God android app was added to the Android Market[16] on November 15 but has since been removed.
![289.png 2:40 PM Advice God Viewing 1 of 14 CREATE ENTIRE UNIVERSE OUT OF NOTHING NEED ADAM'S RIB TO CREATE 1IMORE THING. Share Save](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/257/623/289.png)
The meme continued to spread on the sites Funny Junk[8], Reddit[9] and Memebase.[10] The Advice God Quickmeme[12] page has accumulated over 5,900 submissions, the Scumbag Advice God page [13] has over 530 submissions and a Facebook page has 1,029 likes as of February 24th, 2012.
Notable Derivatives
![allow-humans-to-exist-in-completely-isolated-jungle-tribes-in-the-amazon-send-them-to-hell-for-not-b.jpg ALLOW HUMANS TO EXIST IN COMPLETELY ISOLATED JUNGLE TRIBES IN THE AMAZON SEND THEM TO HELL FOR NOT BEING CHRISTIAN memegenerator.net](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/132/242/allow-humans-to-exist-in-completely-isolated-jungle-tribes-in-the-amazon-send-them-to-hell-for-not-b.jpg?1307653702)
![am4Ht.jpg MY BOOK WAS WRITTEN BY ME AS MUCHAS PARIS HILTON'S WAS WRITTEN BY HER memegenerator.net](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/090/395/am4Ht.jpg?1293607821)
![CREATE-LIGHT-ON-THE-FIRST-DAY-CREATE-SUN-MOON-AND-STARS-ON-FOURTH-DAY.jpg CREATE LIGHT ON THE FIRST DA CREATE SUN, MOON AND STARS ON FOURTH DAY memegenerator.net](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/132/241/CREATE-LIGHT-ON-THE-FIRST-DAY-CREATE-SUN-MOON-AND-STARS-ON-FOURTH-DAY.jpg?1307653685)
![da7.jpg BORED CREATED UNIVERSE memegenerator.net](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/090/402/da7.jpg)
![r9okC.jpg I MADE YOU THAT WAY 1 HATE YOU BECAUSE OF IT memegenerator.net](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/090/221/r9okC.jpg?1293529934)
![tumblr_lqj0sywOun1qhk50go1_500.jpg THOUSANDS OF RELIGIONS HOPE YOU GUESSED RIGHT memegenerator.net](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/168/175/tumblr_lqj0sywOun1qhk50go1_500.jpg?1314657064)
![4a4.jpg FAMINE IN AFRICA? TOO BUSY HELPING TEBOW quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/257/618/4a4.jpg)
![b93.jpg CREATE ARCTIC FLIGHTLESS BIRD MAKE HIM SOCIALLY AWKWARLD quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/257/619/b93.jpg)
![Say stuff | Contradict that stuff SAY STUFF CONTRADICT THAT STUFR quickmeme.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/small/000/257/622/05e.jpg)
Template
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Search Interest
Search queries for "advice god" picked up in October of 2010, shortly after the initial Reddit post.
External References
[1] ABC Gallery – Michelangelo The Creation of the Sun and Moon
[2] Wikipedia – Sistine Chapel
[3] Reddit – My contribution to an already-crowded snowclone Advice God
[4] Reddit – Advice God
[5] Ranker.com – God is an Epic Troll: The Best of the Advice God Meme
[6] Memegenerator – Advice God
[7] Tumblr – Advice God
[8] Funny Junk – Advice God
[9] Reddit – advice god
[11] Google – advice god meme
[12] Quickmeme – Advice God
[13] Quickmeme – Scumbag Advice God
[14] Facebook – Advice God
[15] Zoot Patrol (Via Wayback Machine) – God is Contradicting The Best of Advice God
[16] Hawkee – Advice God
Top Comments
Mega Swampert
Aug 30, 2011 at 12:19PM EDT
Izzy
Feb 18, 2012 at 01:57PM EST