About Those Old (New) Gods...

They are important to know.

We like to think of Molek and Ba'al and Beelzebub and Asherah and Hadad and Dagon and especially the great and despicable El (not to be confused with the real Elohim (our God.)) as these old idols of an ancient past that predated organized monotheism.

Nonsense.

Molek and Ba'al and all the rest, though well-established in Canaan at the time of the birth of the nation of Israel, are new gods. Very new. And, though the Ugarit religion is long dead, the spirit of the old new gods shines just as brightly. We feign intellectual naivety so that we can enjoy their attraction without guilt. Because we don't know our Moleks from our Asherah poles we can block their influence from our mind.

Have I become a sedated pupa, blissed out in the Matrix? Do we even know who our new gods, our old gods, are?