It has been said that each man worships God in his own way.  Of course, there are all sorts of organized religions and cults and even therein no one person worships exactly the same way as the next.  The purpose of this piece is to let the world know how I as Gregory Stuart Gordon worship God.  To worship myself as God would certainly aggrandize myself to myself to no end but would not serve my needs as a human being who needs to recognize a power greater than himself.  I worship the force that created Mankind.  As I am a man, let me state the following:
     I do have a church, although it is not commonly known as such.  It does have an altar which bears images of God.  Unlike most churches where services are held only on Sunday, my church has services several times a day, every day of the week.  Much of the congregation is older and fairly affluent.  The priests will give you communion, take your confession  and comfort you., they will also gladly take your offerings.
     It sounds pretty much like any other church in any other religion, only the church that I am talking about is an all-male strippers club.  To some it may sound blasphemous to equate going to church with visiting a male strip palace, yet, when followed all the way to its logical conclusion, the analogy is very strong.  in fact in my opinion there is far more true religion and less hypocrisy to be found there than in any mainstream church. That is why I choose it as my place to honor God's greatest creation, Man.
     Each "mass" is celebrated by at least six "priests" more commonly known as dancers.  It is these dancers that I go there to worship.  They represent the images of God upon the stage or "altar" about which I spoke earlier.  Genesis chapter one verse twenty seven states: "So God created man in his own image."  These young men represent the most perfect physical images of God to be found anywhere.  Every time I attend a "service" and am "ministered to" by one of the new "clergy," I am truly amazed at the beauty of God's creation.
     Those who by now are fuming at these statements may not have any problem with what seems to me to be a far more disturbing practice which is sanctioned by the world's largest Christian organization, The Holy Roman Catholic Church.  One of their beliefs is that the Father and the Son are one.  This is best evidenced in their signature prayer to the Virgin Mary which contains the words "Hail Mary, Mother of God."  While the concept of Jesus being God is perfectly sound, it is in God's worship where the Catholic Church fails miserably.  At each and every mass Catholics and others from the Pope on down bow and worship in front of a cross with a figure of a man that they say represents what Jesus looked like.  About this very topic, God has this to say: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God..." (Exodus 20: 4-5)
     The above passage, taken from Exodus is not merely another Biblical passage, it is one of the Ten Commandments, the second one to be exact.  Jewelry or statutes with images of Jesus on or off the cross certainly are graven images and as the Catholic belief is that Jesus is now in heaven, worshipping this likeness in real blasphemy.  Especially as none of the images look like me.  And you wonder why I am jealous?
     When I worship I do not bow to graven images but rather to an actual embodiment of God.  There is a whole school of thought based  around this concept.  It is

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