Christianity in the U.S.A. claim that our idolatry is capitalism, consumerism, carnal, etc. etc. Right now airing on major television markets there is an NFL campaign with the slogan "Don't anger the football god's." It seems harmless on first thought, just a funny saying invoking the random chance of one team's victory over another through unforeseen circumstance. The add is more than that. It opens up our minds to the idea that we must appease a deity in order to get the result we desire. It is a blatant portrayal of idolatry. We move past the passive idolatry of possession to the conscious decision to worship something other than the true God. We choose the conscious opening of our spirit to domination by malevolent beings.
While I do not think we are to the point of animism or polytheism or that our culture will ever get there, but I see a huge red flag. Even the fact that a commercial for the "football god's" would run on national television without the general christian populace even being disturbed by it (myself included until just today) is terrifying. Our eyes have been blinded to Satan and his minions. the other god's that are worshiped all over our world are used as jokes in the U.S.A. I don't blame the general populace. They don't understand the danger. Christians on the other hand should cry out, not necessarily to the nation, but among ourselves should it not be a sign to pray? Instead we don't even see it for what it could become. It is a joke, a laugh, a clever play on history that we are amused with.
The worship of false god's is not something to laugh at. research witch doctors, cults, even Hinduism and Islam. They have one thing in common fear. Fear of punishment, fear of death, fear of not performing good enough, and in the most extreme cases fear of unspeakable pain and suffering. They are not pleasant if you can not measure to the standards set. They generate evil acts.
I know that Christianity has also generated many evil acts. The Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, and so many more, but it seems that these were acts motivated by greed and lust of those in charge who misused their power for their own gain. Scripture, especially the new testament, does not hold to the ideals of forced conversion or torturing others to force conversion.
I am not trying to defend the gospel here in this post. I was just shocked at what is now acceptable in mainstream television programming. The "football god's" disquieted my spirit.
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