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    It is not the case that Being worthy of religious worship is a necessary condition for a being to qualify as God.

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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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    • 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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