The time has come.
Bring back idolatry.
Well, not the thing itself,
But the idea.
We don't necessarily
Need to worship deities
To know that any one thing
Made the center of our lives
Will lead us to ruin.
Sports teams, political parties,
Or money, or popularity,
Or Likes, or fame,
Or competition,
Or a person -
Either one we see every day
Or one we worship from afar -
Or even a religion
We've created in our own image
To confirm our own biases,
Any one thing that we set up
At our center
Becomes the thing we are
Willing to sacrifice everything else to.
We drag our children,
Our spouses,
Our friends,
Our democracy,
Our humanity,
And throw it down
Before our idols,
Willing to cut them open
And bleed them dry
To the one thing
We've made everything.
It's hard, because if you're not
Into the whole theism thing,
What do you put the center?
Principles?
Less than inspiring.
A single point on which you balance
All possible idols against each other?
But what is the point itself?
Nothing.
Less than less than inspiring.
But if you are into the god thing,
How do you know your god
Isn't just your own personality
Blown up to the size of the universe
And then blown up some more?
But just being aware
You're capable of idolatry
Is the first step toward
Stopping it.
