Critics lambast “hideous abortion idol” in New York City
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🗓️ 30 January 2023
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A golden, eight-foot female sculpture wearing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s signature lace collar now stands over the state courthouse in New York City. According to the New York Times, the sculptor titled her work “NOW” because “it was needed ‘now,’ at a time when women’s reproductive rights were under siege after the US Supreme Court in June overturned the constitutional right to abortion.” Critics see the sculpture in a very different light, some calling it a “hideous abortion idol” and even “demonic.”
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, January the 30th, 2023, and this is the Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article, written by Denison Forum, CEO, and co-founder, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:17.3 | On a weekend with another mass shooting in California and grief and outrage over the video of Tyre Nichols' horrific death, |
| 0:25.4 | watching the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs win their playoff games yesterday was a welcome distraction for many. |
| 0:32.7 | Meanwhile, another story in the news is more culturally significant than it may seem. A golden, eight-foot |
| 0:40.0 | female sculpture wearing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's signature lace collar |
| 0:45.2 | now stands over the state courthouse in New York City. According to the New York Times, |
| 0:51.2 | the sculptor titled her work now, because it, and I quote, was needed now at a time |
| 0:58.6 | when women's reproductive rights were under siege after the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned |
| 1:04.4 | the constitutional right to abortion. End quote. Art history professor Claire Bishop called the |
| 1:10.2 | sculpture a magical hybrid plant animal |
| 1:13.5 | and hope that maybe she can channel us back to reinstating Roe v. Wade. Critics see the sculpture |
| 1:21.3 | in a very different light, some calling it a hideous abortion idol and even demonic. |
| 1:28.3 | Idolatry is by definition the worship of someone or something other than God as though it were God. |
| 1:36.3 | This sin violates the first of the Ten Commandments from Exodus 20 verse 3, |
| 1:40.8 | You shall have no other gods before me. |
| 1:43.8 | Other gods originally took the form of |
| 1:46.5 | a carved image. Today, our idols are seldom as visible as they were in Moses' day. Nonetheless, |
| 1:54.5 | we all have an ultimate concern, as philosophical theologian Paul Tillick observed. If it's not the one true God, anything we serve in His place is our idol. |
| 2:06.6 | From material success and financial prosperity to cultural popularity and a host of other deities, |
| 2:13.6 | we are all tempted to worship something or someone who is not God. Paradoxically, the more God |
| 2:20.9 | meets our needs and blesses our lives, the more we tend to choose other gods to serve. St. John Fisher |
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