Is it important to worship something?

Question

I appreciate science, but feel that a world where everything explained will be boring as hell. The wonderment of the unexplainable and the divine, is in my mind a crucial part of how we live. Could we function without it
Thoughts? (Please do not quote the bible/koran/etc; this a philosophical question, NOT a religious one )

BTW I am not religious, but I am not an atheist either

OK I will explain... Relikgion attempts to explain things in a way, but just one that does not conrorm to any discipline than the one it creates for itself. Its like asking a criminal to determine the legal system.
Religion is a way of considering the spiritual world; in itself it is tnot the wonder, merely another theory. Thats how. Imagine the sense of awe you get when you stare out at the ocean, if you only response is "Well, God made the ocean" then you are highlighting my point. You are wondering at the ocean, the fact that God, or whatever made it is secondary

Answer 1

Great question. Bob Dylan wrote a song years ago entitled, "You're gonna serve somebody". How true this is. Like the old saying goes, it does not take a rocket scientist to know deep down, humans want more, it only takes...well....a human, to know this.

Everyone of us want security. The second we were born, we cried for love, we got it, and stopped crying(desiring). That was sufficient at the time, but as life continues, we learn these sources fail, then we naturally hunt for other sources.

We constantly worship(put faith in) many things during this hunt. And until a person is completely confident of where his/her secure source of love is coming from, we will always be on this hunt.

In Dylan' s song he goes on to say, "you may serve your boss, family members, God, Satan, etc., but you're gonna serve somebody". It's a never ending pursuit of trying to secure that feeling of love.

Secure is the key word here. People, places, and things are only secure as long as they last, therefore, we are constantly in a pursuit of that source that will quench our thirst forever.

Without getting into Religion, as you requested, I will simply say this, God seems to be that source for many of us that is in fact 100% secure. Not religeon, God.

While I do agree with the "theory" that God created the Ocean, I also agree with you. The theory in itself does not explain away the awesome wonders of this world.

Looking out and experiencing the jaw dropping amazement seems to have incredible psychological, physiological, and theological value. Thanks for your question.

James

Answer 2

There will ALWAYS be things which are unexplained, you need not worry about that, the most brilliant minds in the world have no clue what the answers are to the most astounding questions in life and they never will. The very fact that we are here is so unlikely and so puzzling, no one could ever know. Our human minds couldn't even comprehend the what the real truth is.

But I think I see what you are saying.. We have become a very skeptical and cynical society. Everything can 'somehow be explained away'. That always puts a sour note on life.
I think human beings might still need mysticism, of course, look how many follow religions, still, even though we are in an age of discovery and science.. humans crave it, it is probably in our genetic make-up. I don't know if this sounds controversial or not, but I think that faithlessness in anything mystical, religious, etc., is the direct consequence of living in the age of reason and fact based knowledge. I don't know, maybe all will start to abandon all things supersticious and faith based one day.
I would consider myself to be agnostic but I am never without wonder and awe at our very creation , that the universe actually does stuff like this, like us, like planets and galaxies and birthing stars., there are questions of parallel universes and "others' who live on the other side(s). All truly may not be as it seems, any scientist would acknowledge this. It shouldn't make us feel insignificant, the discovery of how teenytiny we really are in the scheam of things, but that we are part of something truly great.

Answer 3

I think the need to worship something or believe in a higher power is fundamental to the human race. For centuries people have been using gods, goddesses, and other divine entities to explain the unkown, the unimaginable, and all the things that are unexplainable by any other means. The acient greeks and romans blamed famines, plagues, droughts, floods, storms on the gods as a way of explaining what was happening. By giving something an explanation, we make the thing less scary. And by believing in a higher power, we make life more tolerable.

Answer 4

I think it's important to worship something, maybe not to the extreme some people do,but if the only things you believe in are the things that can be explained,life would be so very dull. you need the unexplainable at times,it helps make sense of everything else. Does that make any sense?! I just think that keeping an open mind and knowing that theres something more than what we see and can explain is important,to me it is anyway.

Answer 5

Well, I do not believe it is necessary to worship something at all.

When a person makes the conscious decision to "worship" something, they are willingly recognizing that they are of lesser importance than what it is that they worship.
For example, if I were to start worshipping the mightiness of toasters, I would be humbling myself before an inanimate object; I would be giving it more importance than my own life.

No offense to anyone, but i believe that worship is for the weak-minded. While it makes perfect sense to hold a certain set of beliefs, or even follow the teachings of a person or group, "worship" seems like you are blindly following something and making it the most important thing in the world.

I am not a religious person, simply because i do not wish to "worship" some unexistent being. I would be fine honoring, respecting, or believing something, but I will not humble myself into worshipping it, for the greatest thing I believe in is myself.

Answer 6

Well, many of us worship science to a point that science has become a superstition. Scientific theories are made to be overthrown, not only that it is not certain, theories like the big bang is based on some very vague hypothesizing and observation. Nonetheless, people still gives full support to it because they want to rationalize their surrounding. Same thing happens to people who believe in certain religion. Religions try to rationalize things that cannot be proved, like "Is there an ultimate one?", "where do we go when we are dead," or again, the "big bang".

Answer 7

science cant explain everything that is in the universe. it just opens up a door to a bigger world so that we are not fooled by simple ideas that are all made up and hold us back. religious ideas were made to bring people together which it did. most of the people in the world united and became either Muslims or Christians. now we need science to lead these united groups to the next step of our evolution which ensures our survival. so science is not something we just do, its something we need to make sure we can last as long as we can. we don't need religion any more. if the ideas of science are too complicated for you to understand or cant except them, then science wont stop you from believing what you want to believe but religion stops science because it proves it wrong. so its up to you, you want to know the truth or what you want to believe in.

Answer 8

I will answer with an autobiographical poem that answers your question for me..... I think everyone needs to find their own answer tho.

Sweet Illusions

Sweet illusions
Grand delusions
How I roam these endless fields
Never knowing if I'm growing,
Is it fantasy or real?

I'm a raindrop
Cool and smooth
Dripping, sliding,
Hiding in humidity.
I'm a puddle,
A deep, deep ocean blue.

Does it matter
What direction
East or West?
Surrender quiet
To this quandary,
Who decides
Which way is best?

If I'm moving
Am I going
Or arriving,
Am I staying,
Or just leaving?
My eyes can see
The both to be.
Am I being
What I'm thinking
Or thinking
What I'm being
Am I really
What I think
I be?

Eternal questions
Such delusions
Kiss me and I'll fly away
There are no answers
Just illusions
One by one,
they fill my day.

tks, michael

Answer 9

I agree with you. A world where everything is explained is a world where nothing is challenged. I think it would be extremely boring, and we as humans would stop developing. We need something to challenge us, to keep us wondering, to keep us pressing for a goal. If everything is explained, then what is the point of living? What do we have to look forward to in the future?

Answer 10

I believe that it is in our nature to worship things. It doesn't have to be big, but I do believe we all do it. For some of us it is an awe and wonder at what others have accomplished. For some of us it is an object. What we put first in our lives is what I feel we worship. It could be knowledge or something solid or could be of a spiritual nature.