Modern-day Idolatry

While traveling to Australia and England this summer, I was amazed, but not surprised, at the fever-pitch level the so-called “environmentalists” have reached. Every second word on television is “environment” … “green” … “mother earth.” Every second commercial boasted that their product is “earth friendly.”

It was not surprising, therefore, for me to pick up the Herald Tribune (the global edition of the New York Times) on Monday,  July 26 to find that every second editorial was about how sad they are that the U.S. Senate decided against taxing Americans more for gas and electricity. 

What most of the non-discerning Christians have failed to do is understand that this “environmentalist fever” is truly a religion. Just like the pagans of old worshiped the nature gods Baal and Ashtoreth, those folks are worshiping Gaih (mother earth).

But there is something that is overlooked by many, if not most, believers. There is a powerful parallel between Israel of old falling for this form of idolatry and of the well-meaning Christians of today. They too have drunk the “Kool-Aid™” of modern-day idolatry and fallen into false worship of the gods of nature. Even after the published evidence of how those earth worshiping “environmentalists” falsified data at the University of East Anglia in England, secular-humanist evangelists continue to mislead simple Christians with their earth worshiping.

Only the Holy Spirit can give us the spirit of discernment to distinguish between being good stewards of all God’s bounties and joining in this modern-day worship of false gods—namely, nature.

Let us cry out to the Lord and ask Him to send us a Holy Spirit awakening.