Worship?

[jafar]

I take pause at some of the language I read in Law of One material, as well. Parsing out my associations and responses to language is integral to my work. It shows me where I have resistance or ease. It's catalyst for me: an opportunity for me to explore what's underneath. 

The rabbit hole of religion.  'tis a touchy subject. 

In our hands, religions (and worship of deities, holy texts) have led to incredible suffering. I wonder, though, if religions also inspire as much love. Perhaps the former tends to be more high-profile, than the latter. It may boil down to how an entity uses its religion: for love or control, for unity or separation. 

I have yet to run across any Confederation material that compels me to bow down to, or deify, any other entity or the creator/creation, which is one of the reasons I am so drawn to the Law of One. If I had been so compelled, it would've left a bad taste in my mouth.

Each religion is not the same, and how each entity react towards religion is also unique.

But in general, (most) religion was invented as political tools.
That is the religion which contains dogma inside, things that need to be accepted / believed otherwise a punishment awaits those who reject or even questioned the validity of the dogma.

As a political tools thus mean of control, a separation need to be defined.
Between the controlling "Divine" and the controlled "Non Divine".

Church is divine, your house is not divine.
Torah, Quran, Gospel is divine and your notebook is not divine.
Deities, Emperor, Caliph, Gods, Jesus, Mohammed is divine thus it's 'representative on earth' (ie: priest, clerics) are also divine and you are not divine.

Law of One took the opposite approach which is similar to the Yogic, Zen, Taoism, Sufis approach. Everything is equally divine.
Yet those teachings doesn't contain any 'dogmatic' element inside, thus it's debatable whether it's qualified to be labeled as "Religion".
Unless of course somebody took the Law of One materials and make it as "separately divine" and voila! a religion named "L01" is born.