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Given the statement comes from a Christian source, expecting it to be treated as using a Christian understanding of the terminology, is not unreasonable. It's not like this was something a Buddhist said, and now I'm trying to lecture them on how Christians use the word and why what they said...

Congratulations, you're rehashing discussions of values, priorities, diminishing returns, and moral conflicts that I've been having for a decade and some. You are, again, attributing to me (and other Christians) your personal definition of worship, then insisting that what someone else said...

Unless I'm seriously misreading Moofia, he's either a Christian, or directly took this saying from a Christian. So no, my saying is not contextually irrelevant, because I am explaining the definition used by the person who said it. A lot of Christians don't consciously think that 'hey...

Except for the part where when Theologians discuss what Worship actually means, this is the sort of conclusion that comes out. I get that Christian Theology is not a subject of intense interest to agnostic and atheist types, but when it is a Christian using the term to describe something, you...

Or you could just be misunderstanding what someone means by 'worship' or 'idolize.' Whatever is treated as first and most important in your life? That's what you worship; theologically speaking, that is what the term means. Generally speaking, when a Christian says 'everyone worships...

The root of it is simple: The UN is dominated by leftists, and thus says what they want to hear. 'These people agree with me, therefore it is useful to treat them as an authority.' I don't think I've seen anything anyone else said here that is wrong (except it being the end of westphalian...