From the Frontline-Episode 24-Confronting Idolatry Today

Tonight we will be discussing the sin most condemned in the Bible: Idolatry. Throughout the Bible, Commandments and warnings against Idolatry are the most repeated of all. There are more denunciations against Idolatry than any other sin in the Bible. There seems to be some understanding of how the Second Commandment still applies to us today, in that popular vocabulary identifies: “sports idols”, “Hollywood idols”, “sex idols” and musicians who are described as “idols”. There is also no doubt that people make idols of their favourite political party. The Soviet Union made a god of “the Party” and instituted idolatrous pilgrimages to Lenin’s tomb. Then there is the Mandelamania attempt to start a new religion around Mandela Day…

What is your highest priority? What is most important to you? Anything more important to us than God is an idol. To many people, the idol in their life is fame, fortune, fashions, success, their fancy car, or home, their computer, smart phone, prestige, or a certain relationship. Nothing must be more important in our lives than Almighty God.

“They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger. They sacrificed to demons, not to God…”

Deuteronomy 32:16-17