Blog #50 - The New Religions

If we refuse to serve God, we will try to find meaning in other things.

Feminism, LGBTQ, Palestine, immigrants, socialism, abortion, racism... there are many things that many people are clinging to, despite the fact that most don't understand their own stance and aren't really affected by their issue of choice in the first place. There are protests and riots all over the West and most people holding the signs and setting the fires have no idea what they're so upset about.

Why would a college student risk their future in support of a criminal they've never met, who snuck into the country illegally? They certainly didn't seem to care when Obama or Biden was sending them back home, yet we have riots about it now. Obviously there is a deep hatred for President Trump but is that hatred enough to rally a large portion of the population to protest in the streets, set cars on fire, attack law enforcement or loot stores?

While Trump may have been the catalyst this time, I believe there is a much more spiritual reason for all of the unrest and anger.

We were created to worship. As human beings, we long for deep meaning. We seek it out because we were created by God for God.

Over the last few generations, we have rejected God more and more. We've removed him from our government, from our schools and from our daily lives. In our ignorance, we believed we'd be more free, more happy without the reminder of our sin. The problem with this is that we are made to live in service to Him.

If we refuse to serve God, we will try to find meaning in other things.

Our society has turned ideology into religion. They have traded the Holy Spirit for empty virtue signaling and self gratification.

Without the truth of the scripture, people are clinging to man-made causes and false flags. They have taken the abstract ideals of man-made utopia and put all of their passion into fighting anything that feels contradictory to that goal. Unfortunately, there is absolutely no possible way to achieve that utopia because we are sinful by nature. Something that these same right-fighters have denied is true.

The only utopia that this earth will ever see is the one created at the dawn of time. The one that only two people ever experienced before sin entered our world.

Sadly, you won't be able to reason with people who have turned ideology into religion. The best we can do is paray for them and hope that they eventually see that there is a deeper, more meaningful truth if they humble themselves enough to see it.

For us Christians, it is more important than ever to represent Christ in all that we do so the lost can see that we don't feel the need to live our lives full of anger and hatred. We are already living in peace because we found the one thing that makes life's trials worth experiencing.