The worship of power is a natural reaction of a monkey who suddenly becomes sentient. The sentient monkey realizes the precariousness of his existence in the seemingly preeminent position in the food chain on the ecosystem. Control of fire, bows, arrows and spears no doubt gave him a feeling of power. However, the idea of an omnipotent god that was somehow connected to him, cared for him, and perhaps even reacted to the words of his prayers, must have been a tremendous aide for the monkey as a diversion from reality.
Eric hoffer, in his book, 'the true believer' points out, people who cling to belief fare better psychically during hardship than those without. This applies without regard to the validity of the belief. Hoffer mentions jews, having lost their judaic faith, as not faring well in german concentration camps. Perhaps that is why jews cannot accept that other holocausts were worse than theirs. Anyway, jw's did better in the concentration camps because of adherence to their particular fantasy. Some american pows in vietnam used star trek scifi in facing their ordeals.
Christians think their god is omnipotent, and for that reason, worthy of worship. Their god is reigning, as they think they are also. Songs to their god include phrases such as king of all kings, worthy of all praise and honor, king of all men, heaven bows before him, lord of lords, the earth quakes at his presence, and many others, all adoring him because of his irresistable power. The wt states that it's god, jehovah ultimately vindicates himself when by destroying everything that the wt society doesn't like.
As children, we had our super heros that we loved to read about in comic books. Many people still look up in awe at powerful people, powerful weapons, powerful computers, powerful cars, beautiful women (beauty can be powereful) etc. While powerful equipment is certainly useful, i wonder what affect the worship of power has on its practicers. Does it lead to thinking that might is right? Does it lead to militarism? In the context of sentient monkeys, it makes perfect sense.
If god is love as some declare, would that mean that when god uses violence to resolve problems, that his love has failed? Does his love take second place to his power? If so, is the christian god perhaps also something akin to an animal? In the bible, the cherubum, the angels closest to god, are pictured as having heads w four faces, three of them animal (human is animal) - Ezek10:14. The ark of the covenant was supposedly topped by two of these chimeras. Wt publication 'insight' says,
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These cherubs were associated with the presence of Jehovah: "And I will present myself to you there and speak with you from above the cover, from between the two cherubs that are upon the ark of the testimony." (Ex 25:22; Nu 7:89
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