(Besides atheism) Which belief systems don't advocate the worship or adoration of God(s)?

Question

-- No bible quotes from Christians, please and thank you: this is a question about alternative spirituality; it is not an invitation to explain your beliefs or to proselytize. --

Obviously Christians, Jews and Muslims believe they must fear and worship / adore that which they perceive as "God". And Paganism / Wicca has gods and goddesses its practitioners regard with praise and adulation.

So which belief systems allow or postulate that there is a "God" (or gods), but does not necessarily accept the idea that God has a humanlike ego that requires praise and exaltation?

Answer 1

Mine, for example, does not. I think most would call me a Deist.

Taoism does not have the business about praise and exaltation. It talks about the Tao and then immediately says that "The Tao that can be spoken of is not the True Tao." I like that, a lot!

Buddhists, of course. It really confuses folks sometimes who want to say that Buddhists worship Buddha. God is kind of a choice but not a requirement.

The Church of the SubGenius allows one to take short-term personal saviors, with the idea that pretty soon you will grow up and discard them.

All religions are manmade. Personally, I find they attempt to separate me from 1) the Ineffable and 2) my money.

In the words of Bro. Dave Gardner (a Southern comedian of the 1960s), "People come up to me all the time and say, 'Bro. Dave, why don't you become a preacher? You could make a million dollars!' But Dear Friends, what would a preacher spend it on?"

Answer 2

"So which belief systems allow or postulate that there is a "God" (or gods), but does not necessarily accept the idea that God has a humanlike ego that requires praise and exaltation?"

This is the closest match:


Confucianism

Though Confucianism is commonly called a religion, it is rather a system of moral conduct. Confucius did not talk of God but of goodness. He did not teach about any god, saying simply, "Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible." His attention was centered on making people better in their lifetime, and his 'Analects' are wise sayings similar to the Proverbs in the Bible.

Answer 3

nicely, a idea is something someone believes, be it authentic or pretend. trust it or not, there are those that trust that the earth is flat. (The Flat Earth Society) that is their "idea." hence, anybody who does not count number on a god is an atheist and that is one among their beliefs and area of their idea device...end of tale. As for the "elegance and truth" of your human being idea device, you're heavily inaccurate. I have heard that many people on acid adventure an rather beautiful reflects of color and severe emotional reviews with profound consequences. Tat does not make what they're doing good neither is it something I have any interest in attempting. It honestly doesn’t make their movements or their idea that their movements are ok...the reality. Your bible or the Quran or inspite of holly e book you subscribe too may convey you some kind of convenience and also you may want to locate some elegance in that is pages, yet that doesn't make all of it peaches and it honestly does not make it authentic or the reality. This absurd idea that everybody's beliefs must be time-honored as truth is assigning. in case you pick to idea a lie, it really is your prerogative and that i have no good to avert you from believing what you want. yet purely as I scoff on the acidheads and pot heads and alcoholics for waiting their lives and the adults that would want to’t differentiate between technology fiction and truth and spend countless hours an afternoon playing video games for a similar reason, so too do i think about those that would want to placed faith in such an antiquated and ridiculous idea as god. ~~

Answer 4

You could go into the atheistic religions like Jainism, Buddhism, or most forms of Satanism, but ultimately, most gods want a little adoration now and then. Most of the hindu gods are content with you just thinking about them time to time and if you want to leave a small offering of food to one of the statues of them, great, if not, no biggie, they're out to help Humanity, not be worshipped.

Answer 5

It's never been my understanding - or practice - that as Wiccans that we give our Gods and Goddesses praise and exaltation, necessarily. Certainly thanks and respect for the help they give us, but I don't regard that as the same as praise and adulation. They aren't the kinds of beings that "love" or "hate" us. They just "are" and we relate to them, asking for help when we need it, and when they give it we thank them appropriately. We don't have forest fires because the Goddess is in a particularly bad mood, or because we didn't praise Her enough. We have forest fires because they're a way for Nature to rejuvinate Herself, and because we've been unbalancing the planet for so long.

Perhaps your understanding of Wicca is different than mine.

Blessed be!
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Answer 6

Confucism doesn't, and Buddhism has minimum interaction with divinity, although Buddhists do treat Buddha as a sort of demi-God similar but not quite the same as Christians view Christ.

Answer 7

Buddhism

Answer 8

I would say Kabbalah but most involved adore the system. I think any religion will adore its own teachings for the follower.

I think when we think of a just god there is no ego however.

Answer 9

Besides Atheists, man-made religions will be the other options not advocate the worship of God. The truth is there is only one God, it is not possible to have many Gods , if not the world will be
in disorder.

Answer 10

I believe that Agnosticism advocates that there "could" be a god, but that it would not want to be worshiped in the way that christians, jews, or muslims do.