Choose This Day Whom You Will Serve

So, now let me tell you what modern-day Baal worship is…it is liberalism.

Modern-day liberals – or “progressives” as they more carefully prefer – labor under an awkward misconception; namely, that there is nothing remotely “progressive” about the fundamental canons of their blind, secular-humanist faith. In fact, today’s liberalism is largely a sanitized retread of an antiquated mythology, that of Baal worship – which you could not call progressive, because it followed the practices that were done while they were in Egypt. But if we look at it, we can see that biblical Christianity is the only truly progressive movement, as it is radically different. Amen!

Baal worship lives on in liberalism, although it has now assumed a more contemporary look, the fundamentals of Baal worship remain alive and well today within it. The principal pillars of Baalism were child sacrifice, sexual immorality; both heterosexual and homosexual, and pantheism; which is reverence of creation over the Creator. Modern liberalism deviates little from its ancient predecessor. While its macabre rituals have been sanitized with flowery and euphemistic terms of art and freedom, its core tenets and practices remain eerily similar. The worship of “fertility” has been replaced with worship of “reproductive freedom” or “choice.” Child sacrifice via burnt offering has been updated, ever so slightly, to become child sacrifice by way of abortion. The ritualistic promotion, practice and celebration of both heterosexual and homosexual immorality and promiscuity have been carefully whitewashed – yet wholeheartedly embraced – by the cults of radical feminism, militant “gay rights”, and “comprehensive sex education.” And the pantheistic worship of “mother earth” has been substituted – in name only – for radical environmentalism.

But it’s not just self-styled “progressives” or secular humanists who have adopted the fundamental pillars of Baalism. In these postmodern times, we’ve also been graced, regrettably, by the advent of counter-biblical “progressive Christianity” or “fake-Christianity,” as I prefer to call it. This is merely liberalism all dolled up and gratuitously stamped “Christian.” It’s a way for left-wing ideologues to have their “religion” cake and eat it too. Under the guise of “social justice,” its adherents often support – or at least rationalize – the same pro-homosexual, pro-abortion and radical environmental policies pushed by the modern-day Baal worshiper.

“I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, ‘This is My people’; And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”

Zechariah 13:9

Our religion and worship will be tested by God, it will be tested by fire so to say. Just as fire causes the impurities of silver and gold to rise to the top where they can be scooped and thrown away, God wants us to be more pure than impure so that His refining process has enough for eternal life. So, going back to our opening scripture, the people put their god to the test, that he would answer with fire just as Elijah said the true God would. But where we read the rest of that passage, we find that their god did not answer with fire, no matter how much that danced and performed their sexual acts. Elijah even ridiculed them by saying that maybe their god is asleep or has gone on vacation, so they should shout louder. But when Elijah’s turn came, he told them to put even more water over the altar and offering, to show that even with the extra water the true God of creation will answer with fire. Elijah prayed and God answered by sending fire upon the altar in such that the altar, the bull, and all the water was burnt up. When the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”