The Idolatrous Mindset in the Modern World

Israel's syncretic participation in idolatry was really a pollution and a surrender of the worldview or ontology that Moses had given them. They might have only accommodated portions of the pagan religion, not the whole lot. But what they had full scale accommodated was the pagan conception about God,. The gods and the cosmos and the low view of humanity. That feeling of cosmic irrelevance and smallness is a very modern, quite a quite scientific mindset.