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'''Worship''' in its broadest meaning is to ascribe honor, worth, excellence or authority to someone, whether a [[sage]], a [[magistrate]], a [[ruler]], or [[God]], as being worthy of honor, respect, or dignity, even veneration. In the [[Latin]] language the varying degrees of intensity of worshipful respect are expressed as the terms ''dulia, hyperdulia, and latria'', this last, ''latria'', being the unconditional ''adoration'' due to God alone. [[Saint Paul]] in his [[Epistle to the Romans]] expressed it this way:{{cquote|Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those that resist will incur judgment.... Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due. <br>—Romans 13:1-2, 7 (RSVCE)}}[[Saint Peter]] wrote:{{cquote|Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right. For it is God's will that by doing right you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God. Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. <br>—1 Peter 2:13-17 (RSVCE).}} God commanded, "Honor your father and your mother" <ref>Exodus 20:12</ref>. Paul also wrote, "Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ...let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right" <ref>Ephesians 5:21-22, 33–6:1</ref>. In human society, this is the proper worship of honor and respect according to human dignity (''dulia''), for God made man, male and female, in the image of God <ref>Genesis 1:26-27</ref>.
'''Worship''' in its broadest meaning is to ascribe honor, worth, excellence or authority to someone, whether a [[hero]], [[Philosopher|sage]], a [[magistrate]], a [[ruler]], or [[God]], as being worthy of honor, respect, or dignity, even veneration. In the [[Latin]] language the varying degrees of intensity of worshipful respect are expressed as the terms ''dulia, hyperdulia, and latria'', this last, ''latria'', being the unconditional ''adoration'' due to God alone. [[Saint Paul]] in his [[Epistle to the Romans]] expressed it this way:{{cquote|Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those that resist will incur judgment.... Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due. <br>—Romans 13:1-2, 7 (RSVCE)}}[[Saint Peter]] wrote:{{cquote|Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right. For it is God's will that by doing right you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God. Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor. <br>—1 Peter 2:13-17 (RSVCE).}} God commanded, "Honor your father and your mother" <ref>Exodus 20:12</ref>. Paul also wrote, "Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ...let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right" <ref>Ephesians 5:21-22, 33–6:1</ref>. In human society, this is the proper worship of honor and respect according to human dignity (''dulia''), for God made man, male and female, in the image of God <ref>Genesis 1:26-27</ref>.
==Worship in religion==
==Worship in religion==
All true Christians love the Bible, and deeply reverence it as the divinely inspired Word of God, whether Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Baptist, Protestant Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Independent, non-denominational, or individual believer without any particular creed or denominational orientation who believes in God and reads the Bible. Non-Catholic and non-Orthodox Protestant Christians honor and reverence the Bible as the sole rule of faith and practice for the Church as the local Body of Christ, and assert that they worship God alone, by faith alone, through the Spirit alone, according to the Bible alone. See '''''[[Sola spiritu]]'''''.
All true Christians love the Bible, and deeply reverence it as the divinely inspired Word of God, whether Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Baptist, Protestant Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Independent, non-denominational, or individual believer without any particular creed or denominational orientation who believes in God and reads the Bible. Non-Catholic and non-Orthodox Protestant Christians honor and reverence the Bible as the sole rule of faith and practice for the Church as the local Body of Christ, and assert that they worship God alone, by faith alone, through the Spirit alone, according to the Bible alone. See '''''[[Sola spiritu]]'''''.
==Hero worship==
'''Hero worship''' commonly refers to disproportionate or excessive admiration for anyone who is regarded as a [[hero]]; for example, first responders, law enforcement, military, and sports figures, people who have unexpectedly manifested unusual courage, anyone culturally influential or famous for almost any reason in the [[Media|public media]], any individual who appears to the admirer to embody fascinating, extraordinary, and admirable qualities. The hero worshipper may adopt methods of identifying with the chosen hero, including imitation of clothing, hairstyles, and manners of speech and behavior. Americans have been accused of idealizing "frontier" violence, "larger-than-life" colorful outlaws who defy conventional standards of public morality, who "bend the rules", and shrewdly clever, intelligent criminal behavior in film and literature. Extremes of imitative hero worship can become [[obsession]]s, leading to [[Vigilante|vigilantism]], gratuitous violence, and stalking of famous persons.
The term may refer to the Hero cult in [[ancient Greece]] which admired individuals who did extraordinary feats. [[Apotheosis]] is the raising of a person to the level of a [[deity]], [[deification]]. The [[cult of personality]] almost always involves unrestrained emotional adulation of a public figure, often a preacher or evangelist, a [[pop culture]] media star, or a dynamically [[charism]]atic political figure, and is always a psychologically potent political weapon used mainly in [[dictator]]ships.
==See also==
==See also==