People go crazy for a good story or movie and can get so invested in it that they even dress up as the characters. The recent release of the latest Star Wars movie shows that there is nothing like fiction to attract money and influence the majority. Actors are sought after, admired and even adored, while some fans may undergo plastic surgery to restore their features. Elvis Presley’s followers are one example, as tens of thousands imitate his ways nearly 40 years after his death.

So what is it about fiction that draws people to this point? What happens to their mind and their spirituality if all they care about is what has come out of other people’s imaginations? The behavior of humanity is intertwined with the idealism dreamed of by the ancestors and refined in great stories.

Recently, when a major computer company released a new device, people had been lining up the night before to be among the first to get their hands on it. But there’s nothing special about being first except that they get to brag about it. That hits the nail on the head because everything worthwhile in this world is about pride and vanity.

Images of celestial bodies transformed into humans are worshiped as gods; prayed to; breastfed; care with love; and parade on the shoulders of men who treat them as supernatural beings. To expect them to have power and to be able to answer one’s prayers is about as foolish as the human mind can be, and yet that is what is at the heart of today’s religions.

“They throw gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balances, and hire a goldsmith: and he makes him a god; they prostrate themselves, yes, they worship him. They carry him on their shoulder, carry him, and put him on his place, and he stands…yes, one will cry out to him, but he cannot answer, nor save him from his troubles.” Isaiah 46:6,7

Religions, like all fiction, are based on magic and worship. They are based on what one cannot see and the tricks or nonsense associated with things like the afterlife or with one’s status in this life. The fools who follow them are incapable of separating reality and searching within for the spiritual connection with the real God, the Spirit of the Universe. Now he is targeting all the idol worshipers.

“These two things will come to you in one moment in one day, orphanhood and widowhood; they will overtake you in their perfection by the multitude of sorceries, and by the great abundance of your goods… Therefore evil will come upon you, you will not know where it comes from, and evil will fall on you; now you will be able to remove it, and a sudden desolation will come upon you, which you will not know.” Isaiah 47:9,11