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Is idolatry wrong?.

It should be illegal for anyone to be saying publicly that idolatry is bad or that God opposes it. Nobody should be allowed to be saying the almighty father God is burning idolators in hell fire. All human cultures know what God opposes and that is evil doing. Nobody needs to be taught what is evil.
Religionists are just using the idolatry is bad argument to cause problems all over the world. Just like your earthly parents can not say do not greet other people, the almighty Father God too can not say do not worship lesser Gods.
The religionists are just using their mentality to cause problems worldwide and it is high time the governments of the world rose to stop it. A stitch in time saves nine.

lawani:
➜Is idolatry wrong? It should be illegal for anyone to be saying publicly that idolatry is bad or that God opposes it. Nobody should be allowed to be saying the almighty father God is burning idolators in hell fire. All human cultures know what God opposes and that is evil doing. Nobody needs to be taught what is evil.
Religionists are just using the idolatry is bad argument to cause problems all over the world. Just like your earthly parents can not say do not greet other people, the almighty Father God too can not say do not worship lesser Gods.
The religionists are just using their mentality to cause problems worldwide and it is high time the governments of the world rose to stop it. A stitch in time saves nine.

Basically, freedom of speech means absolutely nothing to you? This is what you are announcing to the public?

lawani:
Is idolatry wrong?.
It should be illegal for anyone to be saying publicly that idolatry is bad or that God opposes it. Nobody should be allowed to be saying the almighty father God is burning idolators in hell fire. All human cultures know what God opposes and that is evil doing. Nobody needs to be taught what is evil.
Religionists are just using the idolatry is bad argument to cause problems all over the world. Just like your earthly parents can not say do not greet other people, the almighty Father God too can not say do not worship lesser Gods.
The religionists are just using their mentality to cause problems worldwide and it is high time the governments of the world rose to stop it. A stitch in time saves nine.

You need to know what IDOLATRY truly means it's not about God or Gods!

Kobojunkie:
Basically, freedom of speech means absolutely nothing to you? This is what you are announcing to the public?

You can't for instance make a career of slandering someone. The person will bankrupt you with the courts. That is the type of thing I am saying.

lawani:
➜You can't for instance make a career of slandering someone. The person will bankrupt you with the courts. That is the type of thing I am saying.

Slandering whom in particular?

Kobojunkie:
Slandering whom in particular?

You were saying freedom of speech should be absolute and I pointed out it is not absolute anywhere. That is why there is a crime called slander

MaxInDHouse:
You need to know what IDOLATRY truly means it's not about God or Gods!

What I am addressing is what Christians and Muslims have turned it to. They are saying it is a sin against God. What does it truly mean with respect to JW?

lawani:
➜You were saying freedom of speech should be absolute and I pointed out it is not absolute anywhere. That is why there is a crime called slander

First of all, I never said freedom of speech should be absolute. You obviously responded to a comment you didn't quite comprehend.

Kobojunkie:
First of all, I never said freedom of speech should be absolute. You obviously responded to a comment you didn't quite comprehend.

Thank you. If not absolute, then people should be restrained from saying something about God that has proved to be counter productive. That is the point of the article

lawani:
➜Thank you. If not absolute, then people should be restrained from saying something about God that has proved to be counter productive. That is the point of the article

. I think your intent is to impose your delusions about your god over theirs.

lawani:
Is idolatry wrong?.

It should be illegal for anyone to be saying publicly that idolatry is bad or that God opposes it. Nobody should be allowed to be saying the almighty father God is burning idolators in hell fire. All human cultures know what God opposes and that is evil doing. Nobody needs to be taught what is evil.
Religionists are just using the idolatry is bad argument to cause problems all over the world. Just like your earthly parents can not say do not greet other people, the almighty Father God too can not say do not worship lesser Gods.
The religionists are just using their mentality to cause problems worldwide and it is high time the governments of the world rose to stop it. A stitch in time saves nine.

It is you whose mentally is skewed.

Is idolatry, just a mere greeting?

If it was why did you not tell your mother when she gave you the eyes when your neighbour asked if you will eat? Shebi, it is just eating.

It is Written
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

StillDtruth:
It is you whose mentally is skewed.

Is idolatry, just a mere greeting?

If it was why did you not tell your mother when she gave you the eyes when your neighbour asked if you will eat? Shebi, it is just eating.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

I believe one can say idolatry is advanced reverence or greeting. It is really nothing more than that. How come you think my mentality is screwed because of that?

lawani:
I believe one can say idolatry is advanced reverence or greeting. It is really nothing more than that. How come you think my mentality is screwed because of that?

Why didn't you great your neighbour more than your mother?

And why haven't you given gifts to your friends father more than your father?

StillDtruth:
Why didn't you great your neighbour more than your mother?

And why haven't you given gifts to your friends father more than your father?

I greet everybody. It does not matter who I greet more. I gift many people, it does not matter who I gift more. What religionists say God wants is the equivalent of your parent saying you should not greet anyone but them and it is not logical.

Kobojunkie:
. I think your intent is to impose your delusions about your god over theirs.

I however did not make mention in the article about my leanings spiritually except that I do not think idolatry is wrong. What do you think are my delusions that you talk about?

lawani:
➜I however did not make mention in the article about my leanings spiritually except that I do not think idolatry is wrong. What do you think are my delusions that you talk about?

Well, what is clear from your OP is that you, too, have your own opinions regarding your own version of this god— your own delusions.

lawani:
What I am addressing is what Christians and Muslims have turned it to. They are saying it is a sin against God. What does it truly mean with respect to JW?

No true Christian will tell you worshipers of Ṣàngó, Ògún, Ọbàtálá, Ọ̀ṣẹ̀rẹ̀màgbò or any other deity is commiting idolatry!

The Bible God doesn't accuse people who doesn't know Him as idolaters because they don't have His laws so it's impossible for them to worship what they don't know.

An idolater from the viewpoint of the Bible God is anyone who vows to keep the laws of a deity but goes behind to do something else, for instance an individual claiming Christian who is committing fornication or adultery or who trust in material possessions is an idolater:

Deaden, therefore, your body members that are on the earth as respects sexual immorality, uncleanness, uncontrolled sexual passion, hurtful desire, and greediness, which is idolatry. Colossians 3:5

Do you notice what the Bible called idolatry?

That's why Paul the apostle said:

I pummel my body and lead it as a slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself should not become disapproved somehow. 1Corinthans 9:27

Because he knows what IDOLATRY truly means.

So to the Bible God a worshiper of other Gods who is sincere and honest hearted with what he knows is free of such accusations because that's what he knows:

For when people of the nations, who do not have law, do by nature the things of the law, these people, although not having law, are a law to themselves. They are the very ones who demonstrate the matter of the law to be written in their hearts, while their conscience is bearing witness with them, and by their own thoughts they are being accused or even excused. Romans 2:14-15

So the Bible God doesn't view people who don't know His ways as evildoers rather it's people who knows the right thing but chose doing the wrong thing!

lawani:
I greet everybody. It does not matter who I greet more. I gift many people, it does not matter who I gift more. What religionists say God wants is the equivalent of your parent saying you should not greet anyone but them and it is not logical.

You are still dodging
And I said why have you never greeted your neighbour more than your mother?
And why haven't you given gifts to your friends father more than your father?

Did you parents say that you should not greet and honour any body more than them? Yet you have never done it.

You are just deceiving yourself. All idolaters are committing self murder.

Dtruthspeaker:
You are still dodging
And I said why have you never greeted your neighbour more than your mother?
And why haven't you given gifts to your friends father more than your father?

Did you parents say that you should not greet and honour any body more than them? Yet you have never done it.

You are just deceiving yourself. All idolaters are committing self murder.

You are actually supporting my position with your logic. If you agree you can greet other people apart from your parents though less then why do you think worshipping lesser deities a little is wrong?. You are countering your own argument.

lawani:
You are actually supporting my position with your logic. If you agree you can greet other people apart from your parents though less then why do you think worshipping lesser deities a little is wrong?. You are countering your own argument.

See now you added the word "though less". Now do you see why you are guilty of idolatry?

Would you go befriending enemies of your parents?