Dennis Prager is on Part XVI of his series explaining Judeo-Christion values to lugnuts. The series is a Must Read for Canadians, many of whom need this intellectual stimulation really, really badly. Liberals especially. All liberals. If you’ve read up to this point, you’re already smarter than other Canadians by now. That’s the math.
Nature must not be worshipped: Judeo-Christian values, Part XVI
It is almost impossible to overstate how radically different Old Testament thought was from the thought of the rest of its contemporary world. And it continues to be, given how few societies affirm Judeo-Christian values and how much opposition to them exists in American society, the society that has most incorporated these values.
Among the most radical of these differences was the incredible declaration that God is outside of nature and is its creator.
In every society on earth, people venerated nature and worshipped nature gods. There were gods of thunder and gods of rain. Mountains were worshipped, as were rivers, animals and every natural force known to man. In ancient Egypt, for example, gods included the Nile River, the frog, sun, wind, gazelle, bull, cow, serpent, moon and crocodile.
Then came Genesis, which announced that a supernatural God, i.e., a god who existed outside of nature, created nature. Nothing about nature was divine.
There is an archive of the whole series available at Townhall, where the series is being published.
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