Transubstantiation is one of the creepiest dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church.

@Castenmas None, God does not need our praise. He invited us to share in his glory
We need to be a people who are thankful and work in this broken world, to his praise and glory.

But we are told to avoid worshipping other gods.
money,
power,
position,
possessions,
self.

@SW-User I’m afraid I don’t agree. A god that breaks half of his own commandments and encourages violence and persecution is not worthy of such attention.

@Castenmas Assuming the biblical God is true, he never encouraged violence without a just cause.

The nations that were attacked and driven out of the land of israel were nations that lived and breathed violence and sexual immortality daily. These people were sacrificing babies on the iron hot altar of Moloch. They watched the babies burn while singing praises to Moloch. Having sex with animals and raping men and women and children who did not join in. That was the extent of their evil.

@Justice4All [quote] Assuming the biblical God is true, he never encouraged violence without a just cause.[/quote]

Actually he did when he told the Hebrews to go into what is now Isreal and make war on the people there.

[quote] nations that lived and breathed violence and sexual immortality daily[/quote]

This from a god who got another man’s wife pregnant, and who spurned Cain into a murderous jealousy for ignoring a sacrifice of crops because it was not a blood sacrifice.

There is no pure divinity here.