Why Did Idiolatry Fall Off the List of Important Sins


A common concern (question) about retirement is "What will you do with all that time when you are retired?" One of the things I have done is study which sins conservative Christians are obsessed with and which they have forgotten about and may do not even realize are considered sins in the Bible.  I read often that currently the "worst sins" are gay marriage, abortion and trans. I call the most condemned sins at any given time to be on a "Sin Leader Board." This is taken from the sport of golf where there is a "Leader Board" during tournaments. 

The link author carefully documents that high, maybe the highest, sin on the Bible's Sin Leader Board is idiolatry. Neither gay marriage, gay sex nor abortion are fingered explicitly. But idiolatry, it's there in lights. It's explicitly named a sin. 

Why then are gay sex and abortion high on the current Christian Conservative Sin Leader Board when the "real sin" of idiolatry is missing? I know of only one explanation. It's because the culture runs religion, not the other way around. "Sins" work their way on to the current Conservative Sin Leader Board because they are frowned on in our current culture. What the Bible says about sin or what we might call "God own scoreboard," is not important in conservative Christianity. Conservative Christianity has its own Leader Board and ignores what the Bible considers to be the greatest sins.

Big also in the Sin Leader Board is money. Naming abortion the greatest sin brings in money. Anti gay and trans bring in money. A group or website condemning the sin God ranks high on his Leader Board of sins, idiolatry (according to the Bible), would not cash flow. Thus, there is no such website or group (so far as I know).

What's a Christian to do? The Bible condemns idiolatry, but other Christians are preoccupied with the sins they themselves have decided they do not like. I'll give some advice to such Christians. Ignore the topic of sin and realize it is only a scheme to make money.


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