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    Being worthy of religious worship is a necessary conditio... — Carmelics
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    Being worthy of religious worship is a necessary condition for a being to qualify as God.

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    • 1.Worship is essential to theistic religions.
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    • 2.Any being that qualifies as God must play the role of an appropriate object of worship.
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    • 1.A being can satisfy all classical divine attributes (omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence) without being an appropriate object of worship.
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    • 2.Worthiness of worship is a relational, evaluative property imposed by worshippers, not an intrinsic metaphysical property constitutive of divinity.
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    • 3.Therefore, worship-worthiness is a contingent feature of how humans relate to God, not a necessary condition for God's existence or identity.
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    • 1.Spinoza's God—identical with Nature and governed by necessity—satisfies many traditional criteria for divinity yet is explicitly not a personal being warranting worship.
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    • 2.If a coherent concept of God can be constructed that excludes worship-worthiness, then worship-worthiness is not a necessary condition for qualifying as God.
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    • 3.The supporting argument illicitly conflates the God of theistic religion with the broader philosophical concept of God, begging the question against non-theistic conceptions.
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    A third approach (compatible with the first two) is to start from the close connection in meaning between “God” and “worship”. Worship appears to be essential to theistic religions and thus an essential role that any being must play to qualify for the title “God” is to be an appropriate object of worship. Indeed, although there is risk of circularity here if “worship” is defined in terms of the actions or attitudes appropriately directed towards “God”, it would not be obviously mistaken to claim
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