What does antiworship mean?
Antiworship means Actions that are contrary to worship..
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Actions that are contrary to worship..
God objects to paganism and idolatry because it is the ultimate act of antiworship, where humans create a god in their own image, or else humans create manageable gods that they think they can manipulate or control, or humans use the pantheon to legitimate the violence and machinations of mischievous monarchs.
I have named this paradoxical position—a combination of belief and antiworship —as misotheism. The word is derived from the Greek root misos misos (for 'hatred') and theos (for 'God').
There exists significant doubt about the practicability of an antibathing and antiworship campaign in a country with 800 million practicing Hindus who come to the river by the tens of millions each year to bathe and worship.
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Antiworship means Actions that are contrary to worship..
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God objects to paganism and idolatry because it is the ultimate act of antiworship, where humans create a god in their own image, or else humans create manageable gods that they think they can manipulate or control, or humans use the pantheon to legitimate the violence and machinations of mischievous monarchs.
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