>>They were all created as mere mortals who ascended to godhood. Joseph Smith said
>>matter was eternal.
>>I'm usually tolerant of moral religious beliefs of people who don't wish to kill me (that
>>is, non-Muslims), but as a gnostic leaning Buddhist, such matter-worship makes me
>>nauseous.
>>You only expect to see polytheistic matter-worship in cultures that produce "cargo
>>cults" and voodoo.
Polytheistic matter worship, you ought to write for Doctor Who. See what happens when those you try to teach a principle they don’t understand?
God is eternal because he was there before us and will be there for the rest of our lives. Matter (Being created by God, before he created us), will also be there for the rest of our lives, and is also eternal.
We do not worship matter.
See the first law of Thermodynamics (http://www.chemistry.ohio-state.edu/~woodward/ch121/ch5_law.htm ) for the eternal nature of matter to us mere mortals
"I wish to declare I have always and in all congregations when I have preached on the subject of the Deity,
it has been the plurality of Gods."
(Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet
Joseph Smith pg 369)
You have a different idea of what "eternal" means than most people.