[Cro Dreoilin] Up for Discussion: Do the Gods need worship?

[Charlotte Blackwood]

Yes, I'm not the only geek! Woo! :)  EXACTLY, that episode felt very
judeo-christian.

Regarding the rest of your discussion: in a sense we are all one,
different facets of a whole.  To quote ST again "we create god in our
own image"...which I can see in your discussion, as well.  In a sense
we worship deity to honor that divaine aspect of ourselves, perhaps in
a archtype, whether consciously or sub-consciously (the case for most
folks IMHO)...

On 11/15/11, Greyhart <greyhart at castle-luna.com> wrote:
> This is the sort of relationship I have experienced with Christians. The
> classic Trek episode, "Who Mourns For Adonis", which I believe is the
> episode Charlotte referenced, (yes, I'm a Trek Geek) was written about the
> crew meeting one of the classical Greek Gods, Apollo. It was written from
> the Christian point of view, where Gods are all powerful, and require humans
> to worship them in order to exist. This is a very telling attitude that
> Christians seem to have.

> I see Deity differently than what I've heard the CR's describe. To me, Deity
> is ever present, and what we look at and describe as individual Gods, are
> simply facets of the whole. I also believe that we are Divine, based on the
> fact that all of creation was formed in a Divine act. Therefore everything
> within creation must be Divine. In simpler terms, using the Charge of The
> Goddess, if the Goddess gave birth to all that there is, even though I
> myself was not part of that original birth, I am Divine by right of
> inheritance. I am the current culmination of whatever particles, atoms, or
> molecules that the Goddess gave birth to. Looking at it that way, when we
> worship the Gods, we are opening the connection between our individual
> selves, and that great source we call Deity.
>
> Do the Gods need or require worship? No, we do.