Does God care whether we worship her or not?

[robo]

Morning/Afternoon/Evening everyone:

(1)Does God care whether we worship her or not?
(2)Does God get angry if we do not worship her?
(3)Does God become happy when we worship her?
(4)Does God have emotions such as hate, love, fear, distress, desire, etc.?

 

[9Westy9]

answer to all your questions: maybe

 

[Me Myself]

Depends on the god and what you define as worship.

I´ll say any good God related to morality will feel him/her/itself worshipped everytime you do good deeds.

 

[Vultar]

there is no god - so no worship needed

good doesn't wish to be worshipped anyways, only evil needs to be worshipped

 

[Gentoo]

Depends heavily on who you're specifically asking

 

[robo]

I´ll say any good God related to morality will feel him/her/itself worshipped everytime you do good deeds.

How should one go about finding what constitutes "good deeds"?

 

[robo]

Depends heavily on who you're specifically asking

Possibly. Hopefully we can have some believers provide their comments about their version of God.

 

[Me Myself]

How should one go about finding what constitutes "good deeds"?

While it is subjective, to the least one should start with good intentions.

Good intentions are such that you do something because you know it will maker you and/or others happy.

Intentions that are caring to everyone involved in the planed action, I think are very much more leaned to be "good" than those that are not.

 

[Me Myself]

there is no god - so no worship needed

good doesn't wish to be worshipped anyways, only evil needs to be worshipped

Good wishes people to worship good. Evil needs people to worship it.

 

[Gentoo]

Possibly. Hopefully we can have some believers provide their comments about their version of God.

For myself, no, not really. I'm largely Deist though.

 

[1137]

Morning/Afternoon/Evening everyone:

(1)Does God care whether we worship her or not?
(2)Does God get angry if we do not worship her?
(3)Does God become happy when we worship her?
(4)Does God have emotions such as hate, love, fear, distress, desire, etc.?

I really doubt it, for all of them. I refuse to believe god is so petty that it craves human worship.

there is no god - so no worship needed

That's awesome, can you logically prove that for me real quick? It'd make life much easier.

 

[robo]

While it is subjective, to the least one should start with good intentions.

Good intentions are such that you do something because you know it will maker you and/or others happy.

Intentions that are caring to everyone involved in the planed action, I think are very much more leaned to be "good" than those that are not.

This is just kicking the ball further down - what makes a person happy? Being in a bikini may make a Western woman happy...being in a Burqa may make an Afghani woman happy.

Is the God you are defending (?) someone who prescribes subjective morality or an objective morality?

 

[robo]

I really doubt it, for all of them. I refuse to believe god is so petty that it craves human worship.

Bingo! My thoughts too.

If that is true, then there is no right way or wrong way to worship God. Yes?

Idolatry, polytheism, paganism, monotheism, deism, panentheism, pantheism or any other form of theism are just equally valid or equally invalid.

 

[839311]

I really doubt it, for all of them. I refuse to believe god is so petty that it craves human worship.

Indeed. To think that God cares about worship, or even demands it, seems to me to be painting a petty picture of God. Why would anyone want worship? Don't only egomaniacs want that?

 

[outhouse]

How should one go about finding what constitutes "good deeds"?

if you cant tell that on your own, within your own heart, no one can

 

[Quintessence]

(1)Does God care whether we worship her or not?
(2)Does God get angry if we do not worship her?
(3)Does God become happy when we worship her?
(4)Does God have emotions such as hate, love, fear, distress, desire, etc.

Depends on the deity, as well as what constitutes "worship." To borrow some words from 839311, some gods are what we might call "petty" and "egomaniacal." Pretty much all the Pagan gods have "human failings," but whether they would specifically be touchy about humans worshiping them would vary.

Also, for those of you who have said a god craving human worship is "petty," why do you say this? How exactly are you defining worship?

 

[Levite]

Morning/Afternoon/Evening everyone:

(1)Does God care whether we worship her or not?
(2)Does God get angry if we do not worship her?
(3)Does God become happy when we worship her?
(4)Does God have emotions such as hate, love, fear, distress, desire, etc.?

1. Probably to some degree.

2. "Angry" is probably a strong word. God seems to have made it clear to us (the Jews) that She doesn't much care for people worshipping things besides Her. But the commandments She gave in the Torah are for the Jews only; so presumably if She wants others to worship only Her, She has worked it out with them. We don't concern ourselves with the practices of non-Jews.

3. Depends on how you define "happy." But something akin to that is probably not too off-base.

4. We think that God has something akin to emotions. But we also think that God is deeply, deeply different from us, and the way that Her thoughts and emotions work is not like our own. So while we ascribe emotions like love and compassion and sadness and happiness to Her, we don't know if what She experiences is truly the same thing we call by that name, or something else that is only analogous.

 

[Storm]

Morning/Afternoon/Evening everyone:

(1)Does God care whether we worship her or not?
(2)Does God get angry if we do not worship her?
(3)Does God become happy when we worship her?
(4)Does God have emotions such as hate, love, fear, distress, desire, etc.?

IMO (of course): no, no, no, and yes.

I'm curious, though - why do you say her? I can never hear that without wondering whether it's genuine belief, or a desire to make people uncomfortable.

 

[robo]

I'm curious, though - why do you say her? I can never hear that without wondering whether it's genuine belief, or a desire to make people uncomfortable.

That is the scientific author in me. I work in a field where a third person is referred to in the feminine. Dont know how this convention came about.

 

[Me Myself]

This is just kicking the ball further down - what makes a person happy? Being in a bikini may make a Western woman happy...being in a Burqa may make an Afghani woman happy.

Is the God you are defending (?) someone who prescribes subjective morality or an objective morality?

Actually, happiness can be measured by brain scans so it isn´t that subjective anymore

I am talking about gods, I am not so much "defending" anyone, as I wouldn´t deem a (moraly)good god to be very hurtable in the first place. You need an ego to be hurt.