Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.
The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but yet it does appear to me that the bent to worship is an integral part of man's nature.
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
Self-made men often worship their creator.
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
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