MY SAY: PASSOVER AND IDOL WORSHIP
FROM MIDEAST OUTPOST 2013-http://www.mideastoutpost.com/archives/idol-worship-ruth-king.html
Passover offers another message beyond freedom from bondage and the beginning of Israel’s journey to the Promised Land. It was on this journey that Moses gave the Ten Commandments, revealed by God, to his people. The Decalogue, as they are known, provide the obligations for a decent life: to worship God, keep the Sabbath, honor parents, reject murder, adultery, the bearing of false witness, theft, and envy.
Most people do their best to follow these commandments. Except for the Second Commandment. The Second Commandment says: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.” It has been roughly translated to mean “Thou shalt not worship false idols.”
Modern false idols do not take the shape of golden calves, but cults and liberal cant that people worship with the same fervor. The very people who deride Creationism continue to worship at the altar of man-made global warming, despite the glaring absence of scientific evidence. Now that the world for the last two decades has refused to warm, they’ve switched the locution to undisprovable “climate change.”
Environmentalism is an all embracing false idol – of the right and the left, Jews and Christians, rich and poor, smart and dumb.
My friend Daniel Greenfield eloquently denounces this destructive idol:
“Environmentalism has degenerated into a conviction that all human activity is destructive because the species of man is the greatest threat to the planet and all life on it….
“That is the dark side of environmentalism. The most active non-Muslim domestic terrorist group is environmental. The undercurrent of violence finds easy purchase in environmentalism’s creed that the only real problem with the world is people. No amount of turning off the lights is enough. Eventually you come around to having to turn off the people. The Nazis were among the most enthusiastic environmentalists of their day, even the term ‘Ecology’ was coined by Ernst Haeckel, whose racial views served as precursors to Nazi eugenics. But while Nazi environmentalists believed that we were all animals, they insisted that some animals were better than others. Modern environmentalists believe that we are all worse than animals….
“The incompatibility of productive man with the natural world is a fundamental tenet of the environmental movement. Everything we do is destructive, because of what we are. We are tool builders, inventors and producers. And the environmental movement is aimed at convincing us to stop being these things. To turn off the lights, make do with less and march back to the caves with a few clever ad campaigns and a catchy tune….
“Man is the environmentalist’s devil. He must be beaten, broken and subjugated….Blame him for the natural cycles of the planet and inevitable extinction of species that goes on whether he is there or not. Take away his technology and his inventions. Tell him that the humblest bacteria is better than him, for it is dumb and follows its natural instincts, while he insists on using his mind. Take away his primacy and his learning. And then leave him in the dark.
“The environmental movement is tenacious, fanatic and deceptive. Its creed is the undoing of all human progress.”
An evil idol indeed. Perhaps this Passover Jews should ponder the Second Commandment with more than usual attention.
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