Worship Free?
let the only one who knows the heart be the judge
The following posts were submitted on Religious Forums.
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Original Post
Do we all worship something, even if we don't believe in God? Can we be worship free?
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Unidiversal Response
11/06/2004
Merriam-Webster's #4 definition
(http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictiona...nary&va=worship) seems to capture an overall essence of worship: "extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem <worship of the dollar>". I think that worship and faith are closely associated in that whatever we place our faith in, such as whatever we spend time, energy, and value on, is our object(s) of worship. I spend a lot of time in thought, since I drive umpteen hours nearly every day, usually about God. I don't "esteem" driving even though I respect road conditions and traffic. But I do "esteem" God so I worship God in my thinking. I've worshiped money at times in the past because I wanted much more and spent a lot of time trying to accomplish that. But I got over that when I worked in mortgaging, insurance, and annuities throughout the decade of the 90's. I love my family and try to put quite a bit of confidence in them, but I don't always have a lot of faith in them so I don't worship them. And, of course, I love diversity and believe that a great deal of God's purposes are invested in diversity, hense Unidiversal.com, but my view of diversity is that it comes from God, not that it is God so I don't worship diversity.
It appears that if we worship something then it is something that we trust our highest ideal of life to. If we do not go around murdering people then we are trusting our highest ideal of life to faith in controling others. But if we share concern for others and do not wish to see people harmed then it appears that our highest ideal of life has something to do with a commonality and respect for each other. Some belive that that commonality is religion, but faith, even faith in God, is not "dependant" on religion even though many religions purpose is to try to focus on God. Some even worship religion above or instead of God.
So worship has more to do with whatever we put our confidence/faith in to complete our highest ideal of our own lives than anything else. If we don't think that we put our confidence and faith in anything to complete our highest ideal of our own lives then we need to look at what our lives our accomplishing. Are we encouraging or a drag on ourselves &/or society? Do we have purpose or are we living for no reason? It just seems like people's lives, religious and not, exemplifies our own guidelines in life to others whether we want to admit it or not, and whatever it is that each of us worship makes a difference in other's lives who see or know us. Even mundane purposeless has no absolute zero affect on anyone around us and if we think we only live for our own self then our own self is what we worship.
rousley
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