Deism, Atheism, and False Dilemmas

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Christians would define worship as who or whatever you put first in your life. They expect you to put Yahweh/Jesus first, but if you're playing video games instead of going to church you're committing idolatry towards your games.

Thank you very much.

Of course --- I don't know if all Christians would give that definition of "worship" if you asked them to define it --- but I don't think many of them would disagree with that definition.

Now the question is --- is this definition specific to Christianity, to some-or-all of the Abrahamic religions --- or is it pretty much a working definition that goes across the board for non-modern religions?

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I can't believe that nobody has brought up Chthulu fhtagn and the elder gods yet.
Or the god which is blue smoke.

I do not know about the elder gods or the god which is blue smoke -- but C'thulu, there was no reference to anywhere prior to 1928 --- and even then, no evidence I know of of having been seen ever as anything but fictional. Therefore, if I found a definition of 'God' that fit all non-modern usages of the term, I would not reject that definition should C'thulu not fit it.

I don't think having an agenda is necessarily an anthropomorphism if God is so utterly other that its motivation is totally foreign to us humans.

Just between us, I expect that humanities first contact with alien intelligences will be a visit by proselytizing reptilians who want to convert us to worship a god which looks pretty much like they do. Not anthropomorphic at all.

Having an agenda utterly ailen to our own would not be as extreme an anthropomorphisation as having an agenda similar to our own ---- but just because an anthropomorphisation isn't taken to it's farthest extreme doesn't mean that it isn't an anthropomorphisation.