Humans are built to worship something. When we can't connect with the divine, we redirect that need toward identity, possessions, and cultural templates instead. The question worth asking: what are you actually devoting your time and energy to, and has it become your god?
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when it says in the Old Testament, worship no other gods than me, the implication I offer is that we are a species that worships. And if you do not access the divine, you will worship the mundane, you will worship the profane, you will worship your own identity, you will worship your belongings, you will worship the template laid before you by a culture that gets you distracted and relatively dumb.
I think it's interesting. I love what he says, is we're a people that Tends to worship something. I've done this for myself, is take an inventory of what am I worshiping? What do I spend my time, my thought, my energy thinking about, going after, or consuming, or wanting? And is that becoming my god? And if it is, am I okay with that? That's spot on. And I've seen a lot of people go off course chasing other strange gods, you could call them. It usually leads to a destructive or an empty type of life.