They don’t make idols like they used to

The concept of idols is kind of lost on us today, at least in the Biblical sense. Idol worship, for the most part, has been rendered to the ash heap of history. We don’t deign ourselves to the level of praising a lifeless object. We’re enlightened now. We live in the age of scientific discovery. We’ve moved much past all of that. Or so we think.

I have to admit, when I think of idols, my mind immediately elicits images of something akin to a golden calf. It’s a rather archaic notion, I know, but it’s generally the one I think of. But I also understand idolatry can take on many forms. Over the past 300 years, or so, we’ve come to a better understanding of things. In the natural realm, we see things from a scientific viewpoint, whereas things we couldn’t explain in the past and were ascribed to the realm of the spirit, can now be explained scientifically. This would cause some to think this discounts the spiritual entirely, but it merely brings back to equilibrium a viewpoint which had gone askew due to lack of knowledge. But now, in fact, we’ve veered towards the other end of the spectrum; now nothing is spiritual, and everything is naturally explained. An over-correction, we learn, isn’t actually a correction at all. No matter how old we get, we seem to fail in learning the lesson of balance. Anyway, those things we can’t explain aren’t all thrown in the same basket. Some are unexplained because they’re spiritually understood; others are still unexplained just due to the limits of our current scientific understanding.

But now that we’ve changed our understanding of our world, the idolatry hasn’t disappeared, it’s just taken on a different form. It’s true, the idols of the past aren’t the idols of today, but they’re idols nonetheless. Just because we worship at a different idol doesn’t mean it’s not an idol. Some of these idols are now much more recognizable: the pursuit of career at the expense of all else, a person you hold and revere in a place they don’t deserve, a collection of things to fill your internal emptiness, or the mere pursuit of power to cover your insecurities. Seem familiar now? And, still, sometimes identifying these idols is problematic, even if the idol happens to be ourselves. Maybe, especially if the idol happens to be ourselves. This may, in fact, be the most predominant new idol of today. Most of our culture has become geared towards this new idol. Even the pictures we take encapsulate the egocentric nature of it all by calling them ‘selfies’. And even besides the obvious elevation of our celebrity culture, we don’t even have to look too hard to see it our own little world every day.
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This mistaken belief that we’ve dispelled the idols of the past probably makes it the most difficult to recognize the ones right in front of us. We don’t notice what we think was discarded long ago. But even if it changes in form, we can always recognize it’s true nature and the effect it has on our hearts.

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