A tale from my atheist days:
I went through a phase where I was intrigued by phi – the Golden Ratio. It’s not as common as some folks would claim, but that strange, beautiful number shows up in some strange places.
Designers like it, which is why it pops up in soda cans and picture frames.
And in pentagrams. Draw a perfect pentagram and the ratio of where the lines cross to the length of the sides is in the Golden Ratio.
The Golden Ratio also shows up in biology.
That makes the pentagram a symbol of life.
I thought Christians opposed the pentagram because of a historical accident – pagans worshipped it as a symbol of life, Christians opposed the pagans, so they slandered the pentagram as a symbol of evil.
Fast forward to the holy present:
Christians honour, respect and even adore life.
But we don’t worship it.
Some of the Enemy’s tactics are brute force assaults on your soul and sanity.
And some of the Enemy’s traps are insidious. Worshipping life sounds wholesome, pure and good. Life is beautiful and a product of the divine.
But it’s not divine itself.
Idolatry isn’t always a call to worship Ba’al or Moloch. Sometimes it’s a call to worship something good but that isn’t God. That’s what makes the pentagram evil – not because life is evil (it very much isn’t), not because it’s wrong to admire it, but it’s wrong to worship it.
The pentagram is an unholy symbol. It might be beautiful, it might refer to something great, but to treat it as divine is – at best – a distraction.
Remember – the Enemy’s goal is for you to worship anything but God. That’s a victory. If you revere life, love, freedom, yourself, the Pope or even the Bible ahead of God, then you’ve fallen from the way.
God has to come first. Anything else is folly.
And part of revering God is learning to serve Him better.
That means growing stronger and wiser but staying humble.
This, right here, is a real work for your mind – a fundamental change to how you see the world.
When you realise what you’ve been missing, you can’t help but stay humble. After all, you’ve overlooked something this simple for so long: