Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
If he's God why do I need to worship him?
If God exists, how would you worship him?
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Gromit
International Man of Misery
Cause like Robbie Williams he enjoys it even if he doesn't really deserve it.
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Basically, he is an omnipotent being and you are not so get on your knees.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
So why does my worship matter to him? I'm impressed by him but it fulfils no useful purpose and I, no matter how much I worship or not, am a mere pawn to his whim.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
The 'would you' worship him thread is elsewhere.
On this thread it's pretty much a given you will (whether willing or not you will) the only question is how.
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Don't ask me I don't know the reason why? Bible say it is very important that you do though.
If God were proven to exist beyond all doubt and the Bible is the word of God then I myself will take this reading to heart.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth within you?
To me this says, look after yourself and keep yourself in good repair. Even though it may sound a bit New Puritan in it's tone, I think it fits with the current trend for staying healthy?
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth within you?
To me this says, look after yourself and keep yourself in good repair. Even though it may sound a bit New Puritan in it's tone, I think it fits with the current trend for staying healthy?
i believe in God but do not follow any particular religion...
I'm a cultural Catholic at best and panthiest in my tendencies.
If you take a look at the progressive Christianity of John Shelby Spong, I'm pretty much with him.
I'm a cultural Catholic at best and panthiest in my tendencies.
If you take a look at the progressive Christianity of John Shelby Spong, I'm pretty much with him.
Johnny Canuck3
Well-Known Member
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weltweit
Well-Known Member
Stephen Fry is under investigation in Ireland for apparently blaspheming.
He might be prosecuted under Irish law.
eta: Stephen Fry under police investigation for blasphemy after branding God an 'utter maniac'
He might be prosecuted under Irish law.
eta: Stephen Fry under police investigation for blasphemy after branding God an 'utter maniac'
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Here is where I truly pour scorn on believers.
God, the all powerful creator of the world, the universe and all it contains. Omnipresent. Omnipotent.
Needs a court to punish someone for saying naughty things about him. Really?!!!
CrabbedOne
Walking sideways snippily
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
They fuck you up, your mum and dad ....
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
More seriously than the thread probably deserves, I would celebrate and worship this god by living the fragile gift of life it gave me, in the way that shows most respect for the giver. I would try to be compassionate, to help others, to live full and experience much.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
If such a deity existed, I'd make it sacrifices - burnt offerings of Tories and Lib-Dems, plus the occasional fascist for a change of flavour.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I'd throw rocks at him and tell him he's a cunt
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
I came to say something similar, basically have a nice time and be kind ❤
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
In that case, against my will would be how. I will never worship anyone or anything. God could most probably torture or coerce me into going through the motions, but in my heart I would remain apostate. Unless God is willing to override this "free will" thing I keep hearing about, in which case I wonder why God supposedly gave me one of those in the first place.
It is my life. I did not ask for it, I was not made for a purpose, I was birthed unbidden as an act of love between two mortals. Any intelligent entity unwilling to respect that, and treat me accordingly as an autonomous agent to find my own destiny, is not any entity worth treating with.
catinthehat
Failed VK = Replicant
If I cast my mind back to the last time I 'worshiped' any one it mainly consisted of getting my mates to sidle up and announce the worshiping at break time followed by a strict policy of totally ignoring them.
abe11825
Like to take a cement fix
I don't believe in any deities at the moment, nor have I really ever felt compelled to show any type of positive gestures towards a specific religion. That being said, should there be some really weird opportunity to meet the god that everyone tends to believe in, I'd call that god a right cunt and try not to kick him in the balls (or her in the box, depending on what the gender is) - although, that could be a very naughty way of showing love for some people, I reckon. I'd proceed to ask why said god brainwashes certain doctrines into people, making them think that they are the highest and most deserved of all humanity. They think about this not only in everything they do, but they think they must have to push the religious cause onto others - whether that victim likes it or not.
I'd have too many bullshit questions to be like "dude!!! I love you!!! I'm your biggest fan!!" *swoon*. It's like everything else going on in my world right now - just another passing moment that needs to flee away so I can get on with my business. I don't feel it necessary to have to stop more than once a day to pray to a figure that can't even control the weather (but somehow controls human minds... that's got to be a form of Satanism!).
I'd have too many bullshit questions to be like "dude!!! I love you!!! I'm your biggest fan!!" *swoon*. It's like everything else going on in my world right now - just another passing moment that needs to flee away so I can get on with my business. I don't feel it necessary to have to stop more than once a day to pray to a figure that can't even control the weather (but somehow controls human minds... that's got to be a form of Satanism!).
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
That's the thing I always find funny about blasphemy. God is supposed to be this big fucking deal capable of creating universes, smiting unbelievers, that kind of stuff. Yet when it comes to individual mortals gobbing off about him, the Almighty God is suddenly entirely powerless and thus requires human governments to step in on his behalf.
It's almost as if God doesn't exist and blasphemy is merely an excuse for religious authoritarians to exercise power over believers who step out of line as well as those who don't believe in the first place.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
What kind of twat has unlimited power and still needs billions of people to repeatedly tell him how awesome he is?
Small wonder so many of his preachers are into child abuse. Monkey see, monkey do.
Small wonder so many of his preachers are into child abuse. Monkey see, monkey do.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
whats the point in ultimate power if you can't have worshippers? I mean its not my bag but surely being the best and most powerful thing in all creation would get boring, so you create a race of lesser beings. Sometimes torment them with requests and rules you know they cannot possibly manage, smite them occasionally with extreme caprice.
I mean its not what I'd want to do but you can see how it happened
I mean its not what I'd want to do but you can see how it happened
19force8
For the avoidance of faith
Now there's a god I could worship.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Well no. Because you're allowing god to have human weaknesses and frailties. The whole point of the abrahamic god is that he's perfect in his divinity. Omniscient. Wise. Its irrational to apply to that god the vanity and fragile self-esteem befitting a cloud-dwelling Kanye West.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
If the God of the Bible existed then, presumably, you'd be within the internal logic of Christianity. You'd have good reasons to worship him/her, that wouldn't reduce down to self interest/hell avoidance. It would also be about embracing the divine, acceptance and lots of other things that come with the tradition. Though of course you wouldn't have to do it, that's the free will bit. Very different from the Kanye West, thunderbolt, god as vengeful child version.
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