Reduced to a Piece of Clay: False Humility and Human Dignity

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The verse doesn't have anything to do with human dignity, but rather God having the right to do what he wishes with his creation.  The potter has the perogative to form the vase into whatever shape he desires.

Of course; but if the vase doesn't come out as the potter expects or hopes, s/he'd be an idiot to blame the vase.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Of all the absurdities of the Christian religion, this has got to be the most absurd of all and it should also be the most obvious.

Imagine a potter (who is supposedly a perfect potter who can do no wrong) angrily smashing all his creations because they didn't turn out right. But even the smashing isn't enough for him. He uses his magic to reassemble the defective pottery so he can smash them again. Even that's not enough to assuage him so he invents a place where the pottery is smashed and automatically reassembled and smashed again - for eternity. Very productive.

That's what Christians worship.