To worship the sun is not a bad idea, if you want to select a visible manifestation out there to focus on! We'd all be dead without it in a very short time.

The sun in the sky, of course, has been seen as a visible manifestation of divine power by a great many civilizations, if not most of them...and it is not coincidence that the word "sun" and the word "son" sound the same in our language...because the one archetype is contained within the other. Each is seen as "the light of the world", and the constant rebirth and resurrection of life...only manifesting on a different level, that's all.

To call a Christ or a Messiah or such a figure a "Son" of God is, in a sense to give him the same role served by the sun in the sky. As it is seen to enlighten and sustain the physical worlds, he is seen to enlighten and sustain the inner worlds of spirit and conscious awareness.

These things are all reflections of each other, like those Russian dolls within Russian dolls. You don't have to be a Christian to take note of that. In fact, being a Christian, for some, will get seriously in the WAY of taking note of it. ;-D