RE: Why worship?
January 11, 2015 at 12:31 pm
(This post was last modified: January 11, 2015 at 12:32 pm by Drich.)
(January 9, 2015 at 2:00 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Praising everything someone does, while ignoring all the things they do that would make you wretch if it was anyone else doing it.
I feel like I've said this before.
If your going to make up your own personal definitions of words then you should include them in your Orginal statement.
(January 9, 2015 at 3:13 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote:(January 7, 2015 at 9:59 am)robvalue Wrote: This is something that's been bothering me lately. Why would anyone think it's a good idea to worship anyone or anything? If Yahweh was real, I wouldn't worship him because he's a dick. But even if he wasn't, even if he was the most kind and loving God ever, why would I worship him?
I can be thankful, have admiration and respect, offer friendship, whatever. But what do either of us get out of worship?
The only real reason I can think of to worship anything is because you want to receive better treatment. Either in the form of gifts, or out of fear to avoid punishment. In other words, you're begging for stuff. The only other possible, and ludicrous reason would be that the God or whatever literally could not exist without this worship. Ironically, that is kind of true, but I doubt theists would even claim this.
So why worship anything other than for personal gain? Why not just say thank you? It's fucking creepy.
No matter what I did for someone, I would never expect nor want worship. Why would I?
More importantly, why does a god need worshipers?!? An omnimax god wouldn't, even if it deserved them.
What makes you think God needs worshiper?
Need and want are two different things.
