I guess I whooshed on that one Tom 
I’m not what reverence for those concepts would have to do with worshipping that jerk Apollo from Star trek… or anyone else.
Look at each word in the sentence I quoted. This message sponsored by Gaudere.
You seem to be missing a word in your post.
but one of the legitimate definitions of worship can be
from Webster: verb 2 : to regard with great or extravagant respect, honor, or devotion
noun 4 : extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem
perhaps you were just trying to be funny and I mistook it for trying to make a point.
That might not have happened if it had actually been funny 
I get an Email newsletter from Spong and I do like a lot of what he says.
Did that. Still whooshed. Sorry.
You spelt “screen name” without the c. You spelt it “sreen name”. tomndeb was commenting on your misspelling a post about my misspelling of your name. Sorry, BTW.
Now if there’s a misspelling in there, the circle of irony will be complete.
It’s ‘spelled’. Unless you’re talking about British wheat.
Well I’ll be damned. I could have sworn that “spelt” was viable.
OOHHHHHHH Yeah funny. That same mistake happens to my screen name fairly often. Some wierd thing where people glancing at it fail to see the second S.
Evidently it just happened to me :smack:
Since we already have yin and yang we need a new symbol for the circle of irony
Ignoring ‘spelt’ (an acceptable Britticism variant for “spelled”), I am sure that tomndebb would be happy to demonstrate again the vindication of Gaudere’s Law. 
Actually, that’s the wrong question to ask. We should be asking HOW religion has managed to survive so far. And when are we, as a specieis, going to finish wising up and dump religion completely?
Well… based on a lot of the reasoned responses in this thread supernatural belief paradigms have a lot of practical utility going for them. However, there is I think, a tendency on the part of more sophisticated and educated believers to make a somewhat glib distinction about what faith can and cannot answer and think that is answer enough. In the end (IMO) if the supernatural and miraculous aspect of one’s faith is continuously eroded and crammed into a small and shrinking corner in modernity, eventually the credibility of that belief system will suffer as not all believers are going to be satisfied with some Olympian, Joseph Campbellesque type view of faith as an exercise in philosophical and spiritual archetypes, and will eventually, over time turn away from the more empirically non-supportable aspects of a belief system, and in the end potentially the belief system itself if enough supports are removed.
Belief systems also evolve and redefine themselves. Of course this initially costs some members as the more conservative members resist changes but it can develop from there.
It’s because ‘cosmodan’ is easier to say than ‘cosmosdan’.