I was in a church study group recently...we talked about the commandments wherein God commands us to have no others gods before Him and not to create for ourselves graven images or idols.
A really insightful comment was made that while we don't create actual, physical idols or images we do as humans create what we think God should be (which becomes a little "g" god.) In effect, we create a god that is a reflection of us, rather than reflecting Him.
That could not be better represented than in this piece below.
Brad Pitt says he's at peace with his religious faith – but it wasn't always that way.
In high school, "I had crises of faith," Pitt, 43, tells Parade. "I'd go to Christian revivals and be moved by the Holy Spirit, and I'd go to rock concerts and feel the same fervor," he tells the magazine in its new issue. "Then I'd be told, 'That's the Devil's music! Don't partake in that!' I wanted to experience things religion said not to experience."
Pitt, who took up journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia, says when he started questioning religion, "It wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation."
Still, Pitt, who was raised a conservative Southern Baptist, is not anti-faith today. "Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be all right in the end," he says.
For him, faith is a personal code of values. "What's important to me is that I've defined my beliefs and lived according to them and not betrayed them," he says. "One of those is my belief in family. I still have faith in that."
As for me and my house, we'd rather rely on He who is greater than us; in Pitt's world, he has become the god he sought. Good luck with that...
