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I’ve always kind of felt this way, but its been brought to my attention again due to all the talk about the Grammy’s and when I met Aaron Gillespie (the old drummer from Underoath) last week. I don’t get this countries and worlds obession with “celebrities”. I have been guilty of this in the past and in some aspects am still guilty of it. I just don’t understand the obsession some people get with an actor or athlete or singer or whoever it may be that they have never met, nor will probably ever meet. What makes them so special?
I understand that they are on tv and the media is constantly talking about them and all that but especially as christians I don’t understand how we can put any person other than God on a pedestal like that.
A) They are no different than you or I, except for the fact they have more money than us and more people know who they are.
B) Most of the people we “idolize” aren’t even christians. So we are breaking a fundamental rule of christianity of idolizing another person or thing other than God, that isn’t even living for God.
This is a sad but true way to look at it, Christians out there how many of us know more about a celebrity than we do our own God? How many of us know more stats for our favorite athlete or sports team than we know scriptures from the bible? That one is the one that hits home for me, I have looked up to people in the past, but I haven’t ever taken stardome too serious. I do however probably know more statistics or players names from my favorite sports teams than I do people in the bible or scriptures in the bible.
I want to challenge especially christians out there to take a step back, knock our “idols” off of the pedestal we have put them on and replace that spot with God. The one who actually matters, last time I checked Justin Timberlake or Travis Barker couldn’t get me into heaven but Jesus Christ can.
