Worship
When I first watched the movie The Ten Commandments many years ago, I remember Moses descending from the mountain only to witness the people had converted to worshiping gold as their God. The movie portrayed the people gathering around a gold statue of a bull in an anthropomorphic trance that controlled their fate.
As with every biblical story, the actual story has a deeper meaning. I learned that with the story of Adam and Eve. The serpent, forbidden fruit, and tree are all metaphors used as elements to describe something else.
The story of The Ten Commandments contains many metaphors for the golden bull statue. Broken Covenant, lack of faith, and greed are a few, but an even deeper thought comes to mind.
What if the Israelis were truly worshiping gold? Today, we worship money. Worship is defined as an expression of reverence and adoration for a deity. A deity is something or someone of divine status. Gold and modern-day money can be acknowledged as having divine status.
Do we worship money? I think so. Money commands our attention. We bow down for money, we kill for money, and we even disgrace ourselves for money. If money is not a deity, it certainly has the power of one. Link that power to humanity's survival, and whoever has the most money has god-like powers.
Look at how the sycophants behave when their friend or relative comes into lots of money. You can get many of them to do almost anything with the snap of a finger. Some of them will go to greater lengths by trying to kill to get their hands on that money. That's power, so imagine how much power Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk has. Imagine what they can get done with a snap of the finger.
The dollar bill is the new gold. There is no difference in behavior in today's society from thousands of years ago. The same type of people ran with the same plan: Monetize an element or a piece of paper, link it to survival, collect and control most of it, and let people fight to the death for it.
We are not bad people; we are just gladiators at the Coliseum in Rome fighting for our survival, which makes most of us evil. The Bible says we need to worship one God, the true God, who is the God in each of us.
