(February 15, 2012 at 10:19 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: In the former hypothetical case (should Socrates turn out to exist), you are honoring Socrates the person.
In the latter hypothetical case, Socrates isn't a person at all, he's a fictional character. You can honor what Socrates the character represents, but not the person - because that person does not exist
Yes I agree. So let's apply to God.
If God doesn't exist, then we are worshiping a fictional character, not a real being.
If God exists, and we don't believe he exists, but still believe that if he existed, he would be worthy of highest honor, then we would have Worshiped God.
So if people acknowledge the hypothetical maximally great being as worthy of worship, and turns out the maximally great possible being is real, they would have worshiped that being.
