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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by marc_abonce on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:22PM (#26629032)
It's worth pointing out that this equivalence is only possible in the English language (and maybe other Germanic languages?) where apparently the word worship means a lot of concepts (adoration, veneration, reverence) that in Romance languages are actually separate. In fact, the disagreement over this words is one of the most important differences between Catholicism and Protestantism.

I don't know how does this distinction work in other religions, but based on Wikipedia[1] it looks like adoration, veneration and reverence may also be different on many of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneration

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by bnjms on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:02PM (#26630884)
This is the most interesting take on this thread. What is otherwise a lot of atheists misunderstanding the English usage of worship by religious people and those familiar with them.
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