Should we worship the sun?

[afleitch]

It regulates all life on earth and the matter which created it, coming from the remnants of exploded stars, is the same matter that formed the Earth and all living and non-living things within it. Every thought we have is powered by energy that obtain by consumption of foodstuffs that grow because of the sun. Everything we see is merely reflected light.

Is it therefore worthy of our passive reverance?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

No; why worship the sun when you can worship the God that created it?

[afleitch]

No; why worship the sun when you can worship the God that created it?

You mean other suns?

[DC Al Fine]

Obvious troll is obvious.

[afleitch]

Obvious troll is obvious.

It's actually a serious question and stems from discussions here and here;

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=171283.0
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=171796.0

Maybe you should read about the Stoics, first cause and Spinoza and delve into those threads before you make such a pithy little comment.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

No, balls of gas cannot hear our prayers, so that time spent worshiping can obviously be put to better use. 

I'm very utilitarian when it comes to the uselessness of prayer/worship to inanimate objects.

[Logical Shunt]

No; why worship the sun when you can worship the God that created it?

You mean other suns?

If you keep following the family tree of the stars, you'll quickly run out of tree...it is estimated our Sun is only a 2nd or 3rd generation star.  So who is the Sun's great-granddaddy.  And then there is the Methuselah star, at a mere distance of 190.1 light years from earth, is estimated to be 14.5 billion years old, plus or minus 0.8 billion years.  It probably didn't have a granddaddy, much less a great-granddaddy.

[The Mikado]

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[Oldiesfreak1854]

No, balls of gas cannot hear our prayers, so that time spent worshiping can obviously be put to better use. 

I'm very utilitarian when it comes to the uselessness of prayer/worship to inanimate objects.

While I fundamentally disagree with your political views, I must agree with you here.

[John Dibble]

Short answer: no.

Long answer: The sun is the great provider. Without it life on Earth as we know it would die. At best a few extremophiles living off the energy off of geothermal energy sources would survive. Everything else seems to depend on the sun. Among the things confirmed to exist, it would probably be the most worthy thing for us to worship. George Carlin makes a good argument. That said, the sun will continue doing what it does with our without our worship - it doesn't care, nor can it care. Worshiping it doesn't have any particular benefit, so I don't see a need to bother.

[bgwah]

hell yeah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBzVPXr8SNY

[DemPGH]

Actually, Carl Sagan also made this argument, albeit kind of in tongue-in-cheek manner, the point being that if there were to be any way to think rationally about worshiping anything, it would probably lead one to worship the Sun, which indeed "gives life." But of course, as others have pointed out here, it would be pointless, because the Sun wouldn't be aware of it as the Sun is a giant nuclear furnace. It gives off radiation across the spectrum, and that's all it does. One may as well worship the laws of chemistry or physics if one is to worship the Sun.

Now, the Sun could be adopted as a logo, that would be cool.

[Free Speech Enjoyer]

The sun is going to burn out someday when it runs out of fuel like all the other stars, so why worship it?

[afleitch]

For the record, this isn't something I advocate I just think in it's own way, it makes some sense if one wished to deify something that actually made an impact on the planet.

[Sbane]

Yes, if we should worship anything it should be the sun, water and earth.

[Torie]

No I don't think the sun is something supernatural or divine meriting reverence, to wit worship (nor is anything else in my world, but I digress). I am grateful that it is there however.

[opebo]

I hate the sun and almost totally avoid it.

[Torie]

I hate the sun and almost totally avoid it.

Whose blood is for dinner tonight?

[7,052,770]

You could argue that Akhenaten had the most logical approach to religion of any human being in history.

[opebo]

I hate the sun and almost totally avoid it.

Whose blood is for dinner tonight?

Its true my natural tendencies are almost comically vampiric, which is rather embarrassing considering the atrocious associations that genre now has.  I even often eat blood - the kind of curdled or jellied blood found in some Thai dishes, particularly soups.