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Has anyone thought this through? Bow to me or I kill you all, that works!

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Originally posted by @apathist
Has anyone thought this through? Bow to me or I kill you all, that works!
That’s not why any Christian I know worships. Worship is out of gratitude and a recognition of who God is and what He has done.

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Originally posted by @apathist
Has anyone thought this through? Bow to me or I kill you all, that works!
I think worship ~ as earnest or even well-intentioned as it may be ~ is a kind of wallowing in one's own ideology and a manifestation of deep-seated insecurities and feelings of cognitive dissonance about life and the world.

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Originally posted by @fmf
I think worship ~ as earnest or even well-intentioned as it may be ~ is a kind of wallowing in one's own ideology and a manifestation of deep-seated insecurities and feelings of cognitive dissonance about life and the world.
How did you worship God when you were a Christian for 30-40 years? Did you feel at all connected to God during those decades?

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What is worship [of God]?

Enjoyment of God.
Anytime,
anywhere,
any posture,
while doing anything else simultaneously which is not sinful of dishonoring to God

worship - the enjoyment of the living God.

Some people here, for "worship," need a big strawman to ridicule as an object of their scorn.

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Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose--all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.
-William Temple

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Originally posted by @sonship
What is worship?

Enjoyment of God.
Anytime,
anywhere,
any posture,
while doing anything else simultaneously which is not sinful of dishonoring to God

worship - the enjoyment of the living God.

Some people here, for "worship," need a big strawman to ridicule one as an object of their scorn.
I have no issue with a theist worshipping a God they sincerely believe exists.

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Originally posted by @sonship
Some people here, for "worship," need a big strawman to ridicule one as an object of their scorn.
What do you want people who believe something very different from you [about what worship is] to say - in answer to the question 'What is worship?'

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Originally posted by @fmf
What do you want people who believe something very different from you [about what worship is] to say - in answer to the question 'What is worship?'
Maybe you should ask yourself the same question.

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Originally posted by @fmf
What do you want people who believe something very different from you [about what worship is] to say - in answer to the question 'What is worship?'
You’re asking the writer of the OP what you should say?

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Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
I have no issue with a theist worshipping a God they sincerely believe exists.
Well I’m sure every theist on earth is breathing a sigh of relief.

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Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
I have no issue with a theist worshipping a God they sincerely believe exists.