New Idolatry

In a "New York Times Magazine" article, evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker minimized the crime committed by a teenager who delivered her baby at a prom and then put it in a garbage bag. According to Pinker we should not label this as a murder, because mothers in the animal world sometimes kill their offspring if they think their prospects are poor. The same type of argument based on evolution is proposed by the founder of Ashley Madison, a website that helps married men and women have affairs. They advertise it as "life is short, have an affair!" The founder claims that since we are animals it is natural for us to have many partners. This is the newest form of idolatry in which animal worship has taken the shape of imitating animal behavior and becoming less and less human created in the image of God. As Paul in Romans 1:22-23 says, "Claiming to be wise, they became fools; and they exchanged the glory of immortal God for images resembling a mortal human being or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles."