Dear runner,

Jesus is not the God of Israel and God's chosen people do not recognise him as divine.

They soon will Steele. The complete irrational hatred of Israel from the left has everything to do with the God of Israel. Fulfilment of prophecy certainly pokes the foolish atheist in the eye. Jesus was described as the Holy One of Israel.

To Foxy.

Looking up to role models and heroes is vastly different from worshiping either. I would say that people's obsession with celebrities is also unhealthy; but worshiping any man or woman is even more so an unhealthy state to be in. Don't pray to men or women because they can't do anything to answer the prayers and likely don't know your praying (unless you do it in front of them). Bowing down and worshiping people is also just as bad. The only exception to this rule is to worship Jesus as part of worshiping God. But Jesus is the exception to this rule because He is the son of God and because he's the only way to God. (Not to mention because He died for our sins, and loved the world he came to save).

No matter how you look at it though, if a person worships any other person, or if that other person knows this and recieves that worship, then they (either of them) have done a despicable thing worth rejecting and turning away from.

Those who worship humans will always be let down by humans.

And Foxy, the ideas that...
"there exists one supreme being
or God: that God created the universe and all life and takes
a continuing interest in the creation, that there is a life
hereafter; and that our moral behaviour in this life
influences our fate in the next"
...are not peculiarly Judeo-Christian; they're also central to Islam.

There are many religions in the world.
Foxy,
Doesn't therein lie the fundamental problem ?

runner this world at least in this country supports your right to your view, it may not support mine, see it is my view we invented God, every one of them,OK we may have needed them,but if we look, eyes and heart open,we must ask why so many? why so different? why is ours the true one? blind unquestioning view that God loves us more than other humans is not in my view sustainable