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Everyone worships something. You can worship deity, the State, or yourself.

Those working tirelessly to shut down contrary thoughts and opinions and playing semantics games are doing so with a religious fervor and to redefine social norms to their own worldview.

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> Everyone worships something.

I don’t think someone following the tenets of Buddhism would worship anything. Correct if me I’m wrong.

It depends on your definition of "worship". It's not particularly well defined.

Yeah, for particular sects of Buddhism, such as Pure Land, one can observe practices that are more akin what we would call worship.

Heh, yeah, it depends on your definition of "Buddhism", too. It's probably somewhat better defined than "worship" in some sense, but still a broad target. Between the two fuzzy words you can craft significant overlap or make then virtual opposites.

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