"Given this self-revelation of God, what have we to do with the false religious images? A sappy, sentimental, harmless deity is hardly worthy of our awe, and perhaps this is one reason why the popular god elicits only passing excitement and new golden calves must be fashioned when today’s intoxication turns into tomorrow’s hang-over. As Israel fell under the spell of her neighbors’ idols again and again, so too the church in our day seems so eager to shape Yahweh into the various images of popular culture: entertainment, sentimentality, therapy, marketing, anti-intellectualism, and passivity. C. S. Lewis once wrote that our cravings are wrong, not because we want too much, but because we’re willing to settle for too little. When God offers us a Mediator greater than Moses, a Living Redeemer instead of a golden calf, and a salvation so much richer and more promising than the trivial gods of our mass culture, how can we fail to turn from idols to the true and living God! "
Ain't that the truth!
Old,
but still an interesting read.
Superb article!
I'm sending it to a co-worker - a self-proclaimed "spiritualist" who is wrapped up in this pagan Angel phenomenon. "Well, I believe in God too, but..." is usually her first response to any questions regarding the meat of her faith.
But I suspect they're one result of iconoclasm. Setting up false devils is also a form of idolatry.
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