Ancient words fit modern idolatry and secularists

Isaiah 44:13-17

The carpenter stretches a line and marks with a stylus the outline of an idol. He shapes it with a plane and measures it off with a compass, making it like a man in appearance and dignity, to occupy a shrine. He cuts down cedars, takes a holm or an oak, and lays hold of other trees of the forest, which the Lord had planted and the rain made grow to serve man for fuel. With a part of their wood he warms himself, or makes a fire for baking bread; but with another part he makes a god which he adores, an idol which he worships. Half of it he burns in the fire, and on the embers he roasts his meat; he eats what he has roasted until he is full, and then warms himself and says, "Ah, I am warm, I feel the fire." Of what remains he makes a god, his idol, and prostrate before it to worship, he implores it, "Rescue me, for you are my god."

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How vividly the great prophet Isaiah describes the contradiction and stupidity of the idol maker. Notice that he is not criticizing using the wood for carving for example altar pieces for the Temple, but he is criticizing that the idolater actually expects the piece of wood to rescue him, having god like powers. You may laugh and think they were dumb then, and no one does that now, but actually it's more so true than ever. Humans print money from the pulp of trees and worship it. Humans print newspapers with their own words in it and then worship it. Humans print books filled with delusion and then worship it. Humans take plants and make illegal drugs so the drugs can "rescue them" from their pain. This passage is even more relevant today than in the time of Isaiah, and that is a truly scary fact.