What do you think would happen, if people stopped worshipping an invisable god, and started....?

Question

worshipping a real person instead! Would it be the end of life as we know it?

Think about it, if someone started saying they WERE god, and lets just say all religious people believed them and started worshipping them.

Think about how awful that would be. This 'GOD' would have so much control and power over all these religous people...

what do you predict would happen....

Answer 1

They would quickly become really powerful and corrupt, and would effectively become a dictator ruling whoever believed them.  Dictatorships hardly ever go well, so it would probably be pretty bad.

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Answer 2

All Christians would be seen as criminals because they know the Truth, and people would not be able to buy or sell without that someone's mark on their hand or forehead.

Answer 3

Not all religious people are idiots. Just an FYI.

Answer 4

someone has said that there god some idiots believe him

he is the leader of a suicide cult.

Answer 5

Sorta like some people are doing with Obama... well we will know in a couple months :)

Answer 6

It already did happen with Jesus. He was just an evangenlist claiming to be God and a flock of morons bought it.

Answer 7

yeah..its called dictatorships...

there have been plenty of people like that. the davidian cult etc... very sad.. usually ends up in mass suicide.

http://listverse.com/religion/top-10-cul...

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality...

Pretty similar.

Answer 9

What do you think brings us to ruin, Men Thinking to much of themselves, and then they die and return to the dust.  

“I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man [ish, to one] who is walking even to direct his step.”—Gen. 8:21; 1 Ki. 8:46; Job 14:1; Ps. 39:5; Eccl. 8:8; Jer. 10:23.

Regarding the future of the human family, in whom do people trust to bring about better conditions? Most of them put their trust in human efforts, not in Jehovah’s purpose for mankind. Only a tiny minority of earth’s four billion inhabitants have carefully examined the evidence of Jehovah’s existence, have accepted their responsibilities toward him, and live their lives in obedience to his laws. These persons trust him completely, knowing that he will fulfill his promise of establishing a righteous new order for mankind. They declare, as did the ancient psalmist: “In you I have put my trust, O Jehovah. I have said: ‘You are my God.’” (Ps. 31:14) And they heed God’s warning: “Do not put your trust in nobles, nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs.”—Ps. 146:3.

Should it discourage those who trust Jehovah that they are relatively few compared with earth’s six + billion people? No, because numbers have never been a measure of the rightfulness of an issue. The masses of humankind often have been wrong. Jesus Christ said: “Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it.” (Matt. 7:13, 14) No, trusting the judgment of the masses is not the way through the “narrow gate” to life in its fullness. History is filled with the wreckage of men’s promises, and of the harm that came to the masses who followed blindly.

Especially has the folly of trusting in human wisdom become evident in the past century. Now, with the added experience of having seen this highly scientific modern age, we are better able to examine the results of human accomplishments. We can set them alongside the works of Jehovah and more clearly see where our trust should be placed. “It is better to take refuge in Jehovah than to trust in earthling man.”—Ps. 118:8.

Answer 10

The Roman Empire did quite well under that system.

People in modern times have claimed to be god as well (Koresh, Manson) and the world didn't change that much.

Personally I would rather witness a shift to worshipping the non human form again, fire and earth, water and air. The environment is the one thing we all need so if people need to worship something at all, worship the environment and do something useful.

Answer 11

We still do.  Jesus, buddha, mohammad.  The religious leaders following them are the ones we really bow down to.  If we stopped doing that, the major source of war would disappear.

Answer 12

Wait, this sounds very familiar...

People have worshipped many "living gods" before.  

The Japanese royal family was considered direct descendants of the Sun god, and worshipped as divine.

That was just in the 20th century.  

Answer 13

Ever heard of Chuck Norris?