Or how about the former Betis coach whose mother lit ten candles before every game, the current Betis coach who takes time off from throwing lollipops at opponents to sprinkle salt round the pitch, and the Betis president who worships virgins and the Christ of the Great Power almost as much as he worships himself?
In these cases, Amenhotep's idol or a priest representing him is actually officiating the worship of Amun instead of being worshipped himself, which was not a typical cultic practice in ancient Egypt.
Like Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, Bush was taken to the house of worship he himself saw completed as president 28 years ago.
In thrall to the corporate myth of the commercialization of China and its total conversion to capitalism, Western observers have forgotten the fact that Mao set up a quasi-religion of Communist state worship with himself as the presiding deity, to maintain which he had to eradicate by force: all pre-existing religious ideologies and institutions.
Emphasizing social ethics, he eschewed ritual worship and devoted himself to the abolition of racial, class, and religious prejudices.
He frequently visited places of religious worship and surrounded himself with friars and priests, concerning Grand Duke Ferdinando.
His imagination allows him to join with both the natural and supernatural elements of Psyche, and his form of worship is within himself while "Ode to Psyche" the poem serves as a song in praise of the goddess.
A brother claims he has absented himself from worship because he was offended by the use of a bass viol.
He also felt that spontaneity threatened the focus of worship, even though he himself claimed to possess this gift in extraordinary measure and the Apostles spoke in tongues at Pentecost.
Practically, stress is laid on a type of incarnation—"iconic incarnation"—in which the divine being is actually present in a stone or statue, which thus becomes an icon; therefore, the icon can be worshipped as God himself.
