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

[Kelley Forbes]

Do you think they need "formal or ceremonious rendering of [...] honor 
and homage" in order to have relationship with you? What do you mean by 
"need" here?

-- Kelley.

Sebastian wrote:
> In order to answer this question I admit that I checked the dicitonary 
> for a specific definition of "worship" to understand the nuances of 
> that term. There is the obvious connotation of prostrating before the 
> gods which seems to be why many pagans cringe at the term. However, 
> there is one possible definition that seems to answer this question of 
> "what do you mean by worship?" in my own perspective. "formal or 
> ceremonious rendering of [...] honor and homage". Now, on to the 
> bigger question of need. If we aproach need as the idea that without 
> our worship of them that they would fall into disrepair or that they 
> are so proud that they require veneration for sustenance, I would say 
> no. My answer would come from the perspective of building a 
> relationship as you would with another person. In order to build a 
> healthy relationship with another human, there is an amount of give 
> and take, and this is where the "need" comes in to play. I wish to 
> build a strong, healthy relationship with the gods and ancestors and 
> my half of the give and take comes in the form of tanks, offerings, 
> veneration and plain "good ole fashion'd conversation". So, in short, 
> if you desire not to have a relationship with the gods, then no, they 
> do not need worship.
>  
> ~Sebastian
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Norman <planner1968 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:planner1968 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am on the jump to run my day today but here are a few cent of my
>     thoughts on it. I do think that every deity needs attention. How
>     does that look and what is considered worship/ attention? If I ask
>     my deity for something and that's it, that in my opinion is not
>     attention or worship or however you call it. It's more about
>     paying more attention about the happenings,signs and
>     communications in your life and how you engage with them. You
>     thank your deities, maybe even write a little thank you note for a
>     start. Just as you do with the people. Get into a dialog. At a
>     later point I will write more but now on my way into the world
>     conquering my kingdom:-)
>
>     Sent from my iPhone
>
>     On Nov 15, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Chris and Kelley
>     <chris.n.kelley at astronomytower.net
>     <mailto:chris.n.kelley at astronomytower.net>> wrote:
>
>     > In the interest of getting more discussion going on this list,
>     we're going to start posting some topics for talk.
>     >
>     > Our first topic: Do the Gods need worship?
>     >
>     > This is not just a yes or no answer; there are lot of questions
>     in this one question. Consider:  Which Gods are we talking about?
>     What do we mean by "need"? What do we mean by "worship"?
>     >
>     > Have at it.
>     >
>     > -- Chris and Kelley.
>     >
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