Have you heard that claptrap about "recent polls show over 80% of Americans believe in God"?
We seem to live in a society that professes to believe in God but shows few genuine signs of it. Unless we posit that in Modern America, Wealth is God. Not money, per se, but the power, influence and comfort it affords. Now, let's be real, few including yours truly would admit they don't want such things, after all we are only human. The question is how far do we go today for "thirty pieces of silver?"
What does it say about a society that it claims to love Jesus but grotesquely places his image on everything from T-shirts to bobbleheads, from bad music to mouse pads, just to "sell stuff?"
What does it say about a society that its leaders will sell the birthrights out from under its citizens for a few pieces of silver?
What does it say about a society that its entertainers will grovel in the gutter, its young women will prostitute themselves and disrobe before strangers, and its young men will do worse for a few pieces of silver?
What does it say about a society that its entire Left half fights for the rights of rapists, child molesters, homosexuals, transvestites, murderers, terrorists, and every sort of deviant for the dirty money and attention it brings them?
What does it say about a society that these same people trample on the rights of believers to place their God in the public square?
What does it say about a society that its elected officials are so terrified of losing access to silver, sway and privileges that they refuse to take "the right" position - that based on "the wisdom of the masses" - on anything, rejecting all calls for action and causing all possible solutions to die in committee?
What does it say about a society that it considers raising profits more important than raising children.
What does it say about a society that eschews the tyranny of the majority and accepts the tryanny of the minority for the financial benefit of a few, making lucrative industries based on endlessly intimidating itself with guilt over the sins of its fathers?
What does it say about a society that discourages its males from being masculine but encourages its women to be so?
What does it say about a society that its major attractions are gambling, racing cars around in circles, running balls back and forth, dosing itself with mind-altering drugs and alcohol, and which devotes entire cities and industries to these distractions?
What does it say about a society that its justice favors those who can buy it?
What it says about this society is simple. In such a society, without wealth you are nobody. Perhaps it is 80% of us nobodies who still cling to their belief in God, because in such a society it's all we have.
It is difficult to imagine a God who would continue to bless such a society with the bounty He has provided in the past. And if there is one thing I imagine Jesus won't forgive again, it is being sold out for a few pieces of silver.
