Sex, Love & Kids:
Three Idols that have never Changed
An
old French saying states that “the more things change, the more they stay the
same.” Is this statement true, or just a concoction of someone’s imagination?
Well, to start off examining that question, I recall a verse in the Bible book
of Ecclesiastes that says that nothing new happens under the sun. Let’s examine
three areas that mankind continues to be the same even though things have
changed over centuries of time. Those areas are Sex, Money, and Child
Sacrifice.
First let’s take a
look at sex. The ancient Israelites worshiped a god of sex called Baal. As they
did so they went through perverted rituals of prostitution and the vulgarity of
practicing mass prostitution parties. Today, we see the same thing happening in
the form of pornography, prostitution, human trafficking, rape, and pedophilia.
Perverted forms of sex are any sexual activity that takes place outside of
marriage between a man and a woman. Today modern peoples such as the United
States and England who are considered “civilized” are enamored by the same lust
for sex as the ancient Israelites. Looks like things haven’t changed to much.
Second
I want to show you the god of Mammon or as we will better understand, money.
Again we see the ancient Israelites living life and trying to have a good time.
They end up catching the glimmer of gold and all that it can buy. Their ancient
lust for material items led to another display of lust which would eventually
lead to their destruction. We read in the Bible (Nehemiah and elsewhere) of the
Israelites lending money and coning each other as well as the excessive
taxation of kings or foreign authorities to keep their pomp and luxurious
lifestyles afloat.
Third let’s look at
the most devastating of the Israelites false gods: the god of child sacrifice.
The children of Israel used to offer their children on the arms of a statue-god
named Molech. As they did so, they displayed their lack of dignity for the
sacredness of life and utterly destroyed the future of their nation by killing
them off in this perverted form of Genocide. Today, we see the same icon of
child killing across the most “civilized” nations of the world. It is called
abortion. The several types of horrendous procedures range from cutting a child
in the womb into tiny pieces and suctioning them out to giving birth to the
child and stabbing it in the back of the head with scissors. Are we really any
different than Israel? We are destroying the future for what—a few more years
until we’re ready to take care of a child? Or perhaps we want a career or just
don’t want the trouble of taking care of another life. Wasn’t Israel this way? We
have some idols, but maybe they are not made of stone or wood.
Three examples: the
Israelite idols of Money, Sex, and Child-Sacrifice prove true in modern society
too. The book of Ecclesiastes was right, nothing new happens under the sun and
that old French saying of “the more things change, the more they stay the
same,” well that one is true as well. People chase money, the intrigue of sex
and convenience of child-sacrifice to appease some idol in their own life.
While the idol may not be made of wood or stone, it certainly exists in the
form of an ideology, philosophy, or opinion. We are, essentially, the same
despite the ages.
