[Opinion] Relationship between worshiper and their god

[Morell]

This bugs my mind. I was thinking about the dynamics of relationship between a worshiper and their god. It seems to me, at least nowadays, to be a dynamics of slave and a master. Worshiper serves the god, worships and admires, listen tot he commands of the god and must keep them in attempt to appease the master (the god) and hopefully be rewarded, but there is no telling if the master will do that like ever. Master can do whatever he wants and is the one who can put whatever price on the slave he feels right. Even can abandon him fully if he doesn't like the slave anymore.

I never really felt like worshiping the gods, I rather prefered friendship, which was relationship of trust and love. Not that it cannot appear between master and slave, but the power dynamic is just way different.

What do you think? is worshipping like being a slave?

 

[KjEno186]

Since worship in most organized religions involves a priesthood, and priesthoods like power and control, then yes, it's rather convenient for worship to take on a master-slave dynamic. I don't like the word "worship" for that reason as it implies such a relationship to me.

 

[8Lou1]

i ance 'met' a moslem on reddit and he said he was like a slave to allah. i asked him to explain, cause even in the qoran it writes that slavery is forbidden. i came to understand it as a healing process. when you for example take aspirin to stop a headache your body gives in to the medicine and it gets healed, nothing you can do about that. so its a giving into something you know is good for you.

slavery by a 'god' can also be a very annoying spirit who thinks bdsm is a way to gain real power (sadly one of my experiences with the aset ka). as one of the more stupid examples i can give, annoy and entertain.

i think worshipping is like walking a thin line while being blind and crippled. sometimes needed to get out of danger, but by no means the first tool one uses. rather a last resort.