Drake

Oh, I can imagine how many you might have lost. You think your experience is unique?

To address your questions on idolatry: Almost anything can become idol. If you worship your ancestors, as in some cultures, then a picture of your mother might be an idol to you. Some people worship nature so a simple thing like a bush, tree, a rock, or a dog might be an idol. To some, beetles, or the Beatles, may be their idols.

Then there are obvious religious idols: Pictures of "Jesus", Statues of Jesus on a cross, Baby Jesus and the Virgin, religious bronze statues are an idol (specially to those who kiss them), etc. as in all the atrocious and blatant idols found in the Catholic Church and Lutheran Church.

I doubt most people think their cross jewelry is an idol. Depends on how they think of it I reckon. Maybe its a just a symbol to them though I don't understand why someone would wear a symbol of the murder weapon used to kill the Lord Jesus Whom they love. If someone murdered my family member with a gun I would not display a symbol of the 9mm semi-automatic Glock that took their life around my neck.

Sometimes I wonder if some millennials have turned the internet into an idol.

Here's why it matters to the us in this forum: Why should the church and God's people be indifferent to idols especially where there is no doubt about it? The local churches are criticized for taking a stand against them and accused of not embracing all churches including those who worship idols. Does the Lord hate those idols and the system that produces them? Then where should we stand on it? If we don't then who will? Shouldn't we feel the same as the Lord feels about them as He does in the book of Revelation? Yet, by drawing a line that excludes those "churches" the local churches are accused of causing division. I am not sure where the idea came from that to be one as the Son and Father are one that we must embrace every thing in Christendom?