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View Poll Results: What Is Your Belief or Non-belief in God?
I strongly believe in God and go to my place of worship regularly. 11 22.00%
I strongly believe in my personal view of God, but do not go to a place of worship. 19 38.00%
God must be around somewhere, otherwise where did the universe come from? 4 8.00%
I definitely do not believe in God because I believe science will answer all our questions about where the universe came from. 7 14.00%
I believe God and I believe science will eventually prove God's existence. 2 4.00%
I find it hard to believe in God when so many bad things are happening in the world. 2 4.00%
Believing in God is for weak and fearful people, not for me. 5 10.00%
Voters: 50. You may not vote on this poll

 
 
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Old 02-11-2005, 03:23 PM
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I consider myself a worshipful person, and even though I align myself with a major world religion, I follow and try to honour a living Faith rather than a set of prescribed standards and rules.

However - I seem to have started worshipping my Tank, my little Reef (so I'd better capitalize it ). What started out as a fascinating and absorbing hobby seems to have developed (degraded?) into an obsession. While it still offers pleasures galore at times, I wonder at the overall effects.

I spend a disproportionate amount of devotion, attention, time, effort and money on this Obsession, which -by some definitions pertinent to this thread- qualifies it as an idol (as in, something that replaces God as the principal subject of worship in my life).

For example:
When I'm away from home for a day, I can't wait to get back to check on the tank. I think about the tank when I'm not here. When something is amiss with the tank, it affects my whole world, and I don't feel right until it's fixed. I give priority to tank matters over more important things (and people). I check this board 20 times a day - at least.

I think I have a problem here.

And I checked #1.
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