Just about anything in and out of this world can be worshiped – even Bacon!  Yeah, that’s right.  One of the guys I follow on Twitter posted a link to WorshipBacon.com and man it made me laugh.  The site basically is about bacon worship and comes completed with a church, a holy book and a hymn.

But why am I talking about this?  Well, thing is, anyone can choose to worship anything and call it a religion.  While I believe that Worship Bacon was meant for humor, there are people who take divinity seriously that they’re even willing to die for it.  The object of worship can be anything.  It can be the sun, the moon, the stars, bacon, a tree, spirits or even a neon-colored flying kangaroo with horns.

The fun however doesn’t end there.  For some reason, people all-throughout history have been bragging about whom they worship.  One tribe says their god/dess is better than the other tribe and the other tribe retaliates by saying that theirs is more powerful and so on and so forth.  Many nations have fought in the name of their deity and many people have died for such foolish imaginations.

On the other hand, worship is not all bad.  It also brings some sort of assurance to the person practicing it.  In fact, scientific studies show that religious people are happier than non-religious ones.  Does this mean that atheists are less happy than theists?  I don’t think so.  The reason why I say this is because being religious does not necessarily mean god-worship.  I can be religious with my diet if I want to and a student can be religious with his studies.

I remember talking to a friend (a Christian) about atheism and I told him that faith and worship can be practiced even by atheists in the sense that faith is merely putting hope and belief in something that has not yet been attained and worship can simply be love for something.  I personally think that a person who “believes that he will get the job” has faith and the wife who loves her husband is practically worshiping her husband (reminds me of the Filipino love song “Sinasamba Kita” which means “I Worship You”).

Faith and worship drives a person to do what he has to do which is perhaps why religious people are happier than non-religious ones.  Not because they have some diety to worship but perhaps because they have something that drives them in their everyday life.

Oh well… enough of this.  Just remember, when you go to church, try worshiping the bacon instead.