What are the idols that we are tempted to accommodate? The pantheon of the first century included, among many others, Aphrodite, Asclepius, Dionysius, Mars, and Caesar. Today we have different names for their counterparts: Sex, Health/Fitness, Pleasure, War, and Power/Security, among others. Like the ancients, who had temples, statues, and inscriptions to represent their deities, we find our idols represented in the media as well: in magazines and books, in our movies and our music, on TV and online. Each and all of these can be inappropriately valued as something to live, die, and kill for.
