Idols and the Anti-Christ, no spinning heads here

The things we worship here on Earth turn to dust. All of them. A Course In Miracles calls these things "Idols". We seek them out everywhere, thousands upon thousands, until we find the last one, death. ACIM claims it's an empty vicious cycle that can be stopped when you know what is real in the world and what is not. Idols are things made up by everyone in their minds to substitute for reality.

ACIM says p619. : What is an idol? Do you think you know? For idols are unrecognized as such, and never seen for what they really are. That is the only power they have. Their purpose is obscure, and they are feared and worshiped, both, because you do not know what they are for, and why they have been made. An idol is an image of your brother that you would value more than what he is. Idols are made that he may be replaced, no matter what their form. And it is this that never is perceived and recognized. Be it a body or a thing, a place, a situation or circumstance, an object owned or wanted, or a right demanded or achieved, it is the same.

ACIM goes on to say that the penalty for creating idols is, "not looking within for certainty and quiet calm that liberates you from the world, and lets you stand apart, in quiet and in peace." p619

According to ACIM, idols are the Anti-Christ, a substitute for seeing your brother as yourself. There are millions of ways to do it, and the world as we know it has found probably all of them by now. The Christ is not a person and so you do not have to believe in anyone or worship anything, worshiping is another form of idolization. Instead, it is an inner journey, it has to do with you, your vision of the world. It is a way of looking at the world, a kind of vision that sees (chooses to see) kindness everywhere it looks, love, beauty, peace. It rejects notions of hate and intolerance even though they are there; no faith is put in those visions.