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[hummingwolf]

Many people think of "worship" as an activity confined to a specific place and a specific time, one perhaps involving ancient rituals and singing of hymns. Of course a service on Sunday morning or Friday night when you're joined with a group of potentially like-minded people can be a rich and rewarding version of worship, but it can also be simply a social gathering or a mask for the celebrant's real worship. What people truly worship is often most obvious from how they live their lives in non-religious settings: They make their decisions based on the object of their worship: perform activity X because their true deity approves of activity X; avoid activity Y because their true deity may be angered or disappointed by activity Y.

What I'm wondering this morning is why the heck so many are so willing to worship people we don't even like. Of course someone who's being controlled and abused has reason to placate their abuser like some wrathful deity unless and until they can make their escape--but what about those who choose to serve capricious gods? Is life so simple that we must find ways to make it more complicated? And is there anything more frustrating than worshiping an insecure god?

Bah. Folks who pay their service to money are frequently mocked for their hypocrisy, but at least their god is more likely to make sense than human beings are.

Comments

[magnifelyn.livejournal.com]

Heh. This entry has a whole additional layer of meaning for me, considering my lifestyle.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Hee. Y'know, maybe your lifestyle makes you more honest about something that most people do anyway.

It occurred to me later on that a lot of things here could relate to new motherhood as well.