Why do people worship idols?

Answer 1

Jewish answer: Prayer services are part of halakha (Jewish law) and tradition (Talmud, Berakhot 26a); and the Torah records several prayers of our forefathers.
Prayer is an important form of communicating with God, and maintaining a relationship with Him; and it is also good for the health of the soul, to which Torah, prayer and religious observances are a form of nourishment. Judaism sees it as centrally important to thank God, to recognize that He is the source of prosperity, and to be close to Him.

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Answer 2

One Jehovah's Witness' View:Because Satan (the father of lies) directs them to! Read about it in The Bible or talk to Jehovah's Witnesses.

Another View:

What gives you the right to claim their gods as false? To them, your religion is faulty... It is simply how they were raised.

What is true for you is not true for everyone else in the world. Nobody can really know with certainty which gods are false. Everyone should think for themselves not be propagandized. They should also respect the rights of others to believe as they wish.

Answer 3

They worship to show god some respect and to help your problems.

From my observations in 44 years, We seem to be born with a natural inclination to seek a higher intelligence to guide us in whatever it may be.

it is not always a spiritual deity for all of us who seek to worship. for some of us its intellectual training and research done by experts. for others its technology, for others its science. for others its the arts. some of us worship certain people as well.

so if it works for them in the way that they need it to work, they inadvertently worship it'

we human beings are a thinking and an enquiring species. we are not like animals who are pre-programmed to do just exactly what they do and think no further.

so that their God can be Lifted higher.

Answer 4

Some people worship the gods of their parents because they have never stopped to really consider whether there really are any gods. Those who enquire may come to the realisation that there is no God, but religion also provides some people with comfort and a sense of purpose. People do not need to abandon their faiths just because logic and reason say so.

You have to remember that man makes god out of most things these days. If money is your god then that is what you will worship. However the Bible tells us that" there is only one Almighty GOD and that we should worship HIM wholesouled with all our heart". There are many faults gods!

Answer 5

Satanists

Anton Le Vay started the Church of Satan. Despite its name they do not "worship the devil".

A lot of Christians like to claim that anyone who is not a member of THEIR specific church or sect of Christianity are deluded and thereby "worship the devil". Anything they disagree with is the "work of the Devil".

The separation of evil into a single person was proposed by Zoroaster (Zarathustra). Jeremiah and Isaiah were contemporary authors of books of the Old Testament (i.e. "prophets"). They liked the idea which led to the personification of the "Devil" in the Bible.

The Roman Catholic Church used the accusation of "devil worship" during the Inquisition to justify torture and murder of people. More people died from "civilian" courts trying to please the Catholic Church than the Church itself caused. About 400,000 died. !/4 were male.

Contrary to the beliefs of many Druids, Wiccans and other "Nature Religions" do NOT worship the Devil. The Devil is a Judeo-Christian construct stolen from Zoroastrianism.

Answer 6

They do so for various reasons:

1. Because idols allow us to be in control of our lives;
2. Because idols alow us to have our wants and desires
3. Because idols allow us to consitrate on ourselves
4. Because idols provides personal pleasures.

Answer 7

Wikipedia says:

In some monotheistic religious denominations, the deities of pagan religions -- as well as other competing entities or objects to which particular importance is attributed -- are often called false gods. Conversely, polytheistic pagans may regard the gods of various monotheistic religions as "false gods" because they do not believe that any real deity possesses the properties ascribed by monotheists to their sole deity. Atheists, who do not believe in any deities, do not usually use the term "false god" even though that would encompass all deities from the atheist viewpoint.

Followers of each of the religions described above worship their God or gods because they really believe the God or gods exist. No other reason is required.

Answer 8

because he is the sun, in the form of man.

Answer 9

Christians worship God, not religion.