Reply To: Not Sinning For Lack of Opportunity

there are other avoda zara’s today that almost everyone bows down to:

example includes money, your technological phones that are glued to you & can’t be separated for you even for a few minutes to daven to hashem & many other things.

Yes, that’s a nice bit of rhetoric, but the fact remains that these items are not truly avoda zarah. Were they so, then you would be required to destroy all your money and not have any technology. I’m going to assume that you actually possess money and I know that you are using a computer or phone with Internet access.

You can make the point that we’re too materialistic or too involved with technology without having to go overboard and call it an “avoda zara” when, clearly, that is not the case.

Why is the economy so bad today? Why is the whole world going down? For the past thousands of years there was always Avoda zara in the world-from the molech to the baal to the asheira tree etc…-todays avoda zara is MONEY, we are a servant to money, we serve money, we bow down to money, we let money talk & rule us. Thus we leave Hashem no choice but to take it away from us Rachmana L’tzlan. But you can still save yourself from going down. if a person can use his money the right way & remember that it all comes from Hashem & it was just loaned to him (even though he worked for it), then he is the perfect person to continue holding Hashem’s money.

If you truly believe the wealth and financial well-being of the world and the individuals therein was better in the days when people worshiped Ba’al, Asheirah, Molech, Zeus, et al than it is today, then I would have to conclude that you are woefully ignorant about history, economics and finance.

The Wolf