The Satanic monument for the public square
This is the monument that the Satanists are trying to erect next to that of the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma state capitol. It’s an idol of Baphomet. Note the effort to be child friendly. It...
View ArticlePornography, Idolatry, and the manipulable image
Dr. Jack Kilcrease has a rather brilliant post at Theologia Crucis on the connection between pornography and idolatry. Both fixate on images that can be manipulated according to our desires, as...
View ArticleCovetousness and idolatry
In our Bible class last Sunday, in which we are studying the hymns of Martin Franzmann, this Scriptural text came up: “For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or...
View ArticleReaching today’s idolaters of the self
How do you proclaim the forgiveness of sins to someone who doesn’t think he has done anything wrong? How can you apply the Law to someone who feels no guilt and the Gospel to someone who feels no need...
View ArticlePatriotic Church Services?
I think the main problem with this sort of thing is the same problem with other kinds of "contemporary worship" that says little about Christ or the reception of His gifts.
View ArticlePolitical Ideology as Our New Religions
Nancy Pelosi describes sexual abuser John Conyers as an “icon.” Environmentalists prophecy an apocalyptic last judgment and the end of the world. Progressives look forward to the kingdom of heaven on...
View ArticleLiberals Should Bring Back Civil Religion?
Conservatives have been known for promoting “civil religion”–investing patriotism, the flag, American heroes, etc., with spiritual significance. Christians warn about slipping into that kind of...
View ArticleMoloch at the Colosseum
If you visit the Colosseum in Rome, where thousands of Christians were martyred, you will pass at the entrance an enormous image of Moloch, the gruesome Canaanite deity that demanded the sacrifice of...
View ArticleThe Institutions Americans No Longer Believe In
A major business leader is bullish about the American economy in the short term, but he has big concerns about the future of the country. Our increasing distrust in institutions can be a herald of...
View ArticleRussian Orthodoxy and Christian Nationalism
Some Americans support Christian nationalism. But the Russian Orthodox Church shows what that looks like. Baptism in that church makes you not just a Christian but a Russian. And it teaches that "Holy...
View Article“Everybody Worships”
A book on "wellness" as a new religion quotes the late contemporary novelist David Foster Wallace, who said that "everybody worships." But that if you worship money, things, your own body, or anything...
View ArticleVocation vs. Idolatry
What Bonhoeffer says about vocation of the leader, the leader's temptation to become "the ultimate authority of the led"--that is, an idol--and the temptation of the led to treat the leader in this way...
View ArticleA Demonology of the Internet
Catholic theologian Thomas Harmon draws parallels between the ways the devil tempts us and the way the internet works upon us. Both make us "dis-embodied." Both draw out and manipulate our prior...
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