(November 15, 2009 at 1:36 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Here I sit watching Songs of Praise (sic) and the one theme that constantly runs through the whole programme and with all the people who are interviewed is that of worship, praise, glorification, humility and groveling for forgiveness.
It really makes me feel uneasy and actually makes me cringe when I hear people talking like this. What kind of God demands that his followers worship and praise him for all eternity? I mean, what sort of ego would you have to have?
Also, why must people beg for their sins to be forgiven when presumably this same God created them exactly as they are and knew full well what they would be even before they existed and yet still went on to bring them into existence. How is this their fault and why should they apologise for being human?
The idea of a loving God who only wants the best for you is fine, it's just the rest of the baggage that seems to want to turn people into submissive worms that I can't understand.
I cannot understand this desire to worship, even if you believe.
If God was a fact. (something I have confidence is not true).
I would still not feel the need to worship it would just be another interesting fact.
To misquote Groucho Marx 'I would not worship any God that would have me as a worshipper'
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
