No matter what, Man will worship. If not the One, True God, then many and more lesser ones. This is observable everywhere, and the only ones who deny it are those who worship some part of themselves, and cannot see it for their pride. The greatest proof of this isn't the plurality of religions, nor even the omnipresence of religion. The greatest proof of this is people, whether religious or not, and their relationship to the material world. The materialist philosophies of capitalism and socialism, for example, devolve into rapacious consumerism. It is consumption that shows the deep seated human need for more. If we could be satisfied by what the world had to offer, we would eventually be sated. We cannot be satisfied, so we do not cease. That is why we see even the men who have neither God nor gods, bowing down before their idols.
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