[blam]

"He said children were often thrown alive to their watery graves to please the Mayan rain god Chaac. Some of the children were ritually skinned or dismembered before being offered to the gods, he said..."

How is it possible to worship such a god?

[SunkenCiv]

‘Cause if you don’t, you wind up drowned in a cenote. Some of the remains were of adults.

[RSmithOpt]

I don't know either. But, I hear that the gay pedophiles worship the 9th Circus Court as often as possible in their method of sacrificing young boys.

Sorry. A sad and sick reality in this world and modern culture.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

How is it possible to worship such a god?

When you feel that your life depends on it, probably. "If Chaac doesn't get his sacrifice, it won't rain and we'll all die."

From a Wikipedia article:

At its core, sacrifice symbolized the renewal of divine energy and, in doing so, the continuation of life. Its ability of bloodletting to do this is based on two intertwined concepts that are prevalent in the Maya belief system. The first is the notion that the gods had given life to humankind by sacrificing parts of their own bodies. The second is the central focus of their mythology on human blood, which signified life among the Maya. Within their belief system, human blood was partially made up of the blood of the gods, who sacrificed their own divine blood in creating life in humans. Thus, in order to continually maintain the order of their universe, the Maya believed that blood had to be given back to the gods.

And spilling your own blood played an important part in Mayan religion.

Autosacrifice was typically performed with obsidian prismatic blades or stingray spines. Blood was drawn from piercing or cutting the tongue, earlobes, and/or the genitals, among other locations. Another technique was to draw a rope with attached thorns through the tongue or earlobes. The blood produced was then collected on paper held in a bowl and often burned. The act of burning the sacrificed blood symbolized the transferal of the offering to the gods via its transformation into smoke that would rise.

Generally, the location of the bloodletting on the body correlated with an intended result or a corresponding symbolic representation. For example, drawing blood from the genitals, especially the male sex organs, would be done with the intent of increasing or representing human fertility.

[Salamander]

“How is it possible to worship such a god?”

They make you an offering; you can’t refuse.

[sorry].....;]

[patton]

Because it allows one to believe entropy does not exist.