(February 16, 2012 at 12:15 am)MysticKnight Wrote: 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.
I'm not sure why I bothered, because this is one of the most mundane, pedestrian threads I have ever seen, but I think I see your problem, slick.
Even if we were to grant that your hypothetical "maximally great being" was worthy of worship, that doesn't mean that we in any way, shape, or form actually worshiped it. Got it?
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