In a recent blog article (Thinking about Thinking) I wrote about the irrational behavior of Jews, Christians and Muslims who assign “sacred value” to things. All three religious groups assert in their primary teachings that only God is sacred. To believe otherwise is idolatry.
Yet the “faith” of people who cannot see their God, taste their God, touch their God in the way that they can touch a piece of toast violates the commandment, “Have no other gods before me.”
In some cases, the faith of some people seems to assign the “sacred” to something because it is old. Old church buildings, old teachings that were wrong when they were new, old doctrines that were racist, sexist or otherwise flawed -- but they are “ancient”, say some with reverence.
I recall a good friend of faith who once said that the best thing about the ‘good old days’ is that they are gone! She had lived through the “good old days” of the Great Depression, and knew what she was talking about.
Only God is sacred. We don’t stand on ‘holy ground’ -- only God is holy. Use the mind God created to tone your faith into something beyond mere superstition.
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