Your Gods

[Valjean]

I choose not to create and venerate any Gods at this time, thank you.

 

[Twig pentagram]

Tell me about the gods you venerate.

I don't venerate gods, I pay homage to divinity.

Do you venerate gods outside your religion?

I try to pay homage to the deities outside of my knowledge.

Do you have a primary or patron deity you worship above all others?

I don't worship.

 

[in_lakech]

I like what the Hindu deity Ganesh represents, but I don't actually believe it exists. I even bought a Ganesha statue for my house

I don't worship any deities.

 

[Justin Thyme]

To me God is God. I wrap my head around the idea of God in relationship to Christianity. I respect the fact that others need to do so in different ways. Regardless of how one does so, in a monotheistic or polytheistic manner, God is God.

 

[Andal]

Tell me about the gods you venerate. Do you venerate gods outside your religion? Do you have a primary or patron deity you worship above all others?

I'm curious

I venerate Sri Vishnu in the forms of Narayana, Krishna, and Venkateshvara. With that being said I will also pay respects and make offerings to Shivji, Ganga Ma, and Kali Ma. All three have played special roles in my life

Outside of my religion I'm not opposed to other deities but I don't actively seek them out. Ido enjoy visiting all different places of worship

My main deity and the one who has stolen my heart is Vishnu and I love him in the three forms mentioned above. I circulate between all three .

Aim Hari Aum

 

[Jainarayan]

You'd have a field day at my temple then. The presiding deity is Sri Guruvayurappan; next to his sanctum is Sri Balaji flanked by Sri Devi and Sri Andal/Bhudevi, and next to that is Sri Satyanarayana Swamy. And then there is of course Sri Radha-Krishna and Sri Rama Parivar, Sri Shiva and Maa Parvati, Sri Ganesha and Sri Ayyappa, Sri Hanuman, Kanyaka Parameshwari, Sri Ambika, the list goes on... No sanctum to Kalimaa, though. At least not yet.

And this reminds me that I must go to my altar to do aarti.

 

[Andal]

You'd have a field day at my temple then. The presiding deity is Sri Guruvayurappan; next to his sanctum is Sri Balaji flanked by Sri Devi and Sri Andal/Bhudevi, and next to that is Sri Satyanarayana Swamy. And then there is of course Sri Radha-Krishna and Sri Rama Parivar, Sri Shiva and Maa Parvati, Sri Ganesha and Sri Ayyappa, Sri Hanuman, Kanyaka Parameshwari, Sri Ambika, the list goes on... No sanctum to Kalimaa, though. At least not yet.

And this reminds me that I must go to my altar to do aarti.

Sounds like heaven on earth

 

[Jainarayan]

Have you seen the pictures? I can't see them at work (photbucket is blocked), but I saw some of them at home.

:: Sri Guruvayurappan Temple ::

 

[Orias]

I do not quite understand why some feel so clever embracing and promoting the obscure and idiosyncratic.

For the very reason you don't understand it.

 

[Vinayaka]

Contrary to some others, I believe Gods are actual beings, capable of making decisions, helping, doing things, but on a much greater scale or level than the human mind could ever imagine. I don't believe they are mere symbols or energy flows or representations. They are absolutely real. This idea of 'it's all symbolism' is relatively new, and came with developed intellects, or 'thinking philosophically'.

 

[Orias]

Symbolically speaking, its all very real.