What is really the
source of all life? Where canwe turn for a sense of security? What is the
source of all our supply? What is the source of all our healing? What is
the real source of any meaningful companionship? If the answers are not
found in the living Spirit of God, then we are without hope.
When we discuss
idolatry, we are considering specifically the question of where to put
our trust-not in religious terms but in our everyday life. Do we trust
in the stockmarket- is that the source of our security? If is wavers, do
we waver? If our trust is in that on which the economy of the world rests,then
we are like a cork bobbing on the ocean: every time there is a breeze,
we wobble. This cannot possibly give us a sense of security or a stable
source of supply. This cannot be our god.
Is our god in science or technology? For many years in teaching an introductory psychology class, I eventually offer the solutions for the problems of mankind. For years, the answer was unanimously, "Yes." Suddenly in 1968-69, when I asked a class this very same question, I found only one person out of the whole class who said "Yes"-and that was a retired colonel. The rest of the class, mostly 18-year-olds, said, "No," they did not think science was going to be the source of the answer to man's problems. So another god had failed! These young people had learned not to put their trust in science.
In the movie 2001:
A Space Odyssey, there was a computer named "HAL." He was a symbol
of the technological god. It became very clear in that movie that the men
had put their trust in HAL, only to learn too late that he could not be
trusted because of a fault in his programming. In the '30s, some put their
trust in psychoanalysis, in the '50s and '60s it was small groups. In the
mid-to-late '60s it became social reform, but that did not work out either
so it became political activism. Then was Watergate and.......
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