You appoint yourself in His place! After years of assigning God to the margins of society an impulse to self-deification seems to be the response of increasing numbers of our fellow citizens who have established a new home-grown religion complete with priests (the all-wise, all-knowing, talking heads on television), and politician-pastors, and fervent acolytes promoting dogmatic beliefs every bit as sacred as holy writ from every high and holy media hill, including films, TV, newspapers, magazines and electronic feeding troughs like Facebook, Tik-Tok and Twitter.
The lexicon is extensive, producing a twisted sense of moral superiority in believers who are fed daily sermons declaring that our founders were corrupt, our people are racist, our greed is terrible, and our future is doomed by climate change (aka global warming). We are taught to check our privilege, maintain political correctness at all costs and value multiculturalism vigorously promoted through government-approved and supported DEI programs that bury our individuality in tribal identities (and consign whiteness to the bottom rung). Tolerance is the new Golden Rule, a vague and ill-defined notion better felt than explained, marking those branded as intolerant for the lowest levels of hell while justifying almost any action to send them there.
The impact of this tidal wave of secular scripture on society at large is the spread of a polluted, shallow, dangerous worldview that denies history, tradition and social decency while elevating hedonism as a virtue. Violence is romanticized and sex is distorted and promoted with no restraint through movies and perverse forms of music that are the icons of this new religion, giving rise to a form of barbarism swamped in emotion and prejudice and driven by anger.
The Bible (and history) teaches us that this trajectory leads nowhere good and will not end well. Black clad, masked “Antifa” thugs protesting free speech across the country, roving gangs of looters terrorizing inner cities where homeless encampments flourish, children legally mutilated in the name of “trans” science, and a madman who recently tried to assassinate a presidential candidate, are symptoms of where we now are.
Yet the final destruction of our country is not inevitable. If enough once-godly Americans are moved to rethink the implications of their tepid acknowledgment of Jesus Christ and the Word of God, and if enough actual Christians troubled by their apathy are moved to carry the Word and the Light of Christ into their communities, the tide may yet be turned before it is too late. Establishing the rule of the Prince of Peace in every human heart is the only sure answer to the destructive rule of would-be potentates, outlaws and anarchists who may believe God is not enough because He does not seem to be enough for His professed followers.