Mole
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Worship and Becoming
If we have an impulse to worship, we only have to ask, what are we worshipping now?
The marriage ceremony has the words I thee worship. But perhaps we could ask, where do I choose to spend my time? And the answer may well be what we worship.
But we should issue the warning, Caveat Emptor, for whatever we worship, we become.
So we might say worship is a functioning part of our psyche, part of a creature that is constantly becoming.
I dont think its a perfect analogy but I see what you're saying Alan Moore wrote a great short graphic novel about TV becoming a deity because more people owned and venerated TV and TV shows than practice any religion anymore.
It intrigued me because no one worries about TV anymore but I remember worrying about TV viewing was definitely a thing when I was growing up, there was lots of panic about people not reading so much anymore (Ironically I did read once about reading itself being the cause of moral panics and considered "the solitary vice").
People worry about screen time now but not like there once was a worry about TV.
If we have an impulse to worship, we only have to ask, what are we worshipping now?
The marriage ceremony has the words I thee worship. But perhaps we could ask, where do I choose to spend my time? And the answer may well be what we worship.
But we should issue the warning, Caveat Emptor, for whatever we worship, we become.
So we might say worship is a functioning part of our psyche, part of a creature that is constantly becoming.