First, a short announcement: in the interest of bringing you better quality posts, Smith and I will be taking turns posting on Wednesday.

Creative Minority Report, a blog which Eternal Revolution is currently sponsoring, has had a good week already. A post by Matthew Archbold on abortionists keeping aborted babies in jars made the Drudge Report, and the resulting effect crashed the National Catholic Register’s servers where Matthew’s post appeared.

Matthew writes that this revelation changed his view of abortionists from exploitive, profit-seeking killers to some sort of priests in a death cult fetish (my interpretation of his words). Put another way, it was not money that they were worshiping, but death itself.

It is a harrowing warning to not misdiagnose the gods others worship. Wealth is common, but Death has probably been worshiped by humanity for longer, and with more violent and destructive acts of awe. The gods are indeed real, even if only in the minds of their followers, because they are idolized and worshiped even by those who deny their existence or are ignorant of their existence – it is the atheists who don’t exist.

This may sound like a lot of spiritualist bunk but it is frighteningly true. Man is a spiritual being, and we seek to idealize anything. If we deny the existence of God, our belief, like the rest of nature, abhors a vacuum. Money, health, education, nature, life and death, technology and media – old and new gods fill the void and give us something for which to live. Even humanity or the self can be set upon an altar.

As always, we are at war. Not with each other, but with ideas and idols – in other words, we humans are ever at war with the gods.