This is a great article on one form of modern idolatry and it doesn’t come from an expected source. The director of CORE (the Center for Origins Research) at Bryan College writes how, in defense of creationism (and other apologetic type activity) we fall prey to idolatry:
I greatly fear that our faith in Christ has been replaced with an idolatry of apologetics. I fear we’ve stopped believing in Christ and started believing in arguments about Christ (or the Bible or creation or what have you). I fear we’ve bowed to the world’s demand that we believe only that which is rational. We’re certainly no longer content with merely saying “I don’t know.” We have to have answers, and endless (and often pointless) argument has become our substitute for simply telling unbelievers what Christ has done for us.
And the further danger of this:
While we thought we were teaching them to believe in Christ, we instead taught them to idolize our arguments about Christ. And when those arguments are shown to be incomplete, inadequate, or just wrong, that idolatry (which we thought was real faith) slips away. That’s why I want my students to know the truth about evolution. It’s not bogus. It’s not a failure. There’s lots of evidence in its favor. But that just doesn’t make it true. Have faith in the risen Christ, and it will not matter what scientists tell you (or anyone else, for that matter).
This is a good article and starts a necessary discussion of how we find ourselves trapped believing in idols rooted in our modernistic drive for reason. I have a lot of respect for this creation scientist and what he is doing.