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Spatial Mind stated: source post
The highest dislikes it when we donate praise to falsehoods.
I don't really get why though, unless gods themselves are literally fueled by faith.
Imagine your whole life, your credit would be passed over to some inanimate object. Now you might be thinking you desire no thanks for anything, but it would annoy you if your GF gave credit to the door nob in exchange for your deeds. Or if everyone else in your life for that matter rejoiced at the stones when you score a goal or whatever you do, a misrepresentation of yourself or someone else would benefit.
You can say none of that would bother you, but you'd also think less of humanity. As a matter of fact, you'd in all actually be brighter than everyone you know by a dozen millennia.
An image, even if it's an accurate image, is not and never will be the real thing, and it can never represent the real thing
Does a belief and worship in false Gods other God's people or things empower them ? Absolutely it does, but only to a non external extent. When it comes to the true God. None of us were required for the creator to create all that has a beginning. That includes us.
I'll cut this short and just say, the world we live in glorifies Satanic agendas. The powers such deities obtain, is from us in a temporary state. It's been written how the devil knows his time is limited. In this world he's rich and powerful, and how we destroy ourselves and one another and the world is a reflection of forbidden knowledge.
It'd certainly add more interesting dimensions to the idea of Christianity pushing so hard that God is the only god, why he'd hate false idols, and why The Devil's symbology borrows so much from other faiths. In such a case, to believe in the existence of another deity and, to go further, to grant them your faith, would be what gives them actual form and power.
Christianity contradicts itself by not following God's words close enough. If you noticed that Image of the Pope ( head of the christian religion) paying his respects to fake Mary despite God disliking that shit in the very Bible the Pope uses. Aside from worshiping the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I don't know if Christianity itself suggests there is only one God. The Bible doesn't denounce their existence either....
There are reasons why I sometimes refer to the prime creator as the highest.
EDIT: About that fake Mary having any type of power. It does. If someone ran up and smashed it, he'd be facing some harsh consequences for many reasons, and many would curse him as if the virgin Mary herself was violated. All of that power is a delusion.
It'd be like if believing in Santa Clause made him that much more real and magical. Tibetan Buddhism apparently refers to such beings as Tulpa (wiki). It's like if Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends went into full blown deific power.
I'm sure I mentioned how in the next life, what we think can manifest into reality itself. I never heard of that Tulpa, but it has me nodding to some degree. It was written that we were made in God's likeness. That's a statement I'm sure 99% of us take for granted.
If we delve into the Santa Clause thing we'll have to look up St. Nicolas, and according to history, that fucker was real and it's even suggested how he had similar traits of modern Santa Clause.
As a character, we don't really believe in Santa Clause, yet it exists as it is.
For example:
-Santa Clause is a fictional character people dress up as once a year, and playfully lie to children about his presence.
- The children in short are not too disappointed with the reality of there being no Santa Clause, and after the fact will continue to play along with the Santa thing, cause it for some reason is rewarding.
When asked if that is what Santa Clause is, the majority will say yes. As someone who is sure of eternal life, I'd reckon Nickolas is laughing about it while seeing his work is done through others, while billions of people receive gifts once a year.
Quantum physics interestingly enough expresses their findings in ways that can only revolve around a belief system. They think when we look for things, it'll then be created. So when we're able to measure atoms with unheard of magnifications, we'll then find more, and more will come simply because we looked. Meanwhile they also find that the universe and all things within the wave function, are held together by sound and at the core of this, is pure consciousness.