Reply #10: Don't you see [View All]

[Goblinmonger]

how that is manipulating a word so that you can use it WAY out of context.

Theists worship something. Atheists don't. Theists have a problem with that concept. They can't understand a mind in which that happens. Maybe it scares them a little, I don't know and that is a different concept. So, rather than try to understand that the atheists don't worship anything like the theists worship their "thing" they try to stretch, twist, and (a la trotsky) pound the word "worship" into something they think they can make fit into the atheist world. Your atheist friends don't "worship" the environment like theists "worship" their god. They just don't. They think it is important, they do things to help it, but it is NOT worship. To claim it is is to just completely see the world only through the eyes of a theist and give no credence nor respect to what they atheist is trying to tell you.