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Right. I don't agree that "humbling" as it is usually referred to, is a good thing. I think it is demeaning yourself. It amounts to just begging someone who is powerful not to crush you and speaks of fear. Of course, if someone points a gun at me, I would pretend to "humble" myself, because I may find a way to escape. But we're talking about a god. I'm not going to be able to give him the slip am I? And there is no gun; only an imaginary one.

Of course god, if it exists, is more powerful than us. We know it, he knows it. Why would he require we acknowledge it in such an explicit way and continually tell him it?

Being humble as in recognizing your limitations, your ability to be wrong and not to place yourself above others is a good quality. That is not the same as prostrating yourself and placing yourself below another being. That is not a necessary way to give thanks, and it wouldn't be required by anyone other than an egotistical dictator. I don't in any way equate it with "good".