{"id":5117,"date":"2008-01-13T22:53:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T22:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/01\/when-you-worship-god-you-are-worshipping-yourself-and-not-love\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T22:53:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T22:53:58","slug":"when-you-worship-god-you-are-worshipping-yourself-and-not-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/01\/when-you-worship-god-you-are-worshipping-yourself-and-not-love\/","title":{"rendered":"When you worship God you are worshipping yourself \u2013 and that is not love."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>When you say you love God what does it mean? It means that you love a projection of your own imagination, a projection of yourself clothed in certain forms of respectability according to what you think is noble and holy; so to say, \u2018I love God\u2019, is absolute nonsense. When you worship God you are worshipping yourself \u2013 and that is not love.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you say you love God what does it mean? It means that you love a projection of your own imagination, a projection of yourself clothed in certain forms of respectability according to what you think is noble and holy; so to say, \u2018I love God\u2019, is absolute nonsense. 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