Would We Have the Mind of God or Simulacrum?

Imagine a world where every idea is a god, and every thought is a prayer. How would such a world look? It would be a place where no one could ever truly believe in anything, for every belief would be an idol: a stone carved from the mind’s own clay. Yet, I look around and find this is precisely what we have done. We have taken our ideas, which were meant to serve as windows into truth, and turned them into mirrors that reflect only ourselves.

The pope himself has exhorted politicians to forgo religious duty and subscribe to secularism. This makes sense from a papal standpoint, since it all lies on the false notion that our Lord is only attainable through the pope so that it becomes an excuse to lock God up in the church and do as they please in governance. That is what Pope Leo would have; he would have you imprison God (your connection to Him, at least) in his own dungeon. You see, dear God lover, that building and that infrastructure are the properties of the pope, whereas your mind, your temple, your family, your community, and your nation are God’s.

In simple terms, the profound conclusion which must be reached is this: ideas which are not the tools of God are mere idols. What is the human mind if not the most sacred part of the temple devoted to sacrifice and progress in God’s Will? Yet in this age of deceit, many have become so enamoured with ideas that they elevate them to false gods: ‘logic,’ ‘progress,’ ‘pleasure,’ or even ‘comfort,’ instead of the evidence these are for the higher order. These are great gifts of God and not gods in themselves, plainly. This is the great paradox of our time in seeking truth, especially outside God, we always risk the creation of idols; we pursue wisdom, but in doing so, we may forget that wisdom itself is a gift from God, in its rightful place.

Consider this with clarity, the mind is not neutral ground. It is no empty vessel awaiting content. It is a battlefield where our deepest desires and fears clash, and where the line between truth and illusion is often blurred. Yet, in our quest to fill our regiments with great and noble ideas, we risk losing sight of the very thing that makes them meaningful: the Grace of God allowing us this opportunity. For what is in the expansion of an idea if not a reflection of our capacity for wonderment and goodness; our connection to the divine? What is logic if not the fruit of divine order and our utter empowerment in faith toward His Will?

Ideas become idols when they are regarded without their order and true place. It is our own personal disorder as imperfect mortals which allows the eclipse of deeper truths binding us to God. This current modern world will pass away drowned under the weight filled with such idols stood against God as without and outside Him; submerged. Technological utopias built on the false promise of mortal-self-sufficiency, philosophical systems that deny the existence of absolute truth, and cults of individualism that elevate raw mortal desires above all else. These are not merely errors; they are rebellions against the divine order destined to collapse under the weight of His creative project.

The void in the human soul was designed for God’s love. What is an idea if not a fleeting shadow cast by the light of divine truth? What is scepticism, if not the mind’s attempt to grapple with this light? Shall we allow ourselves to be so enamoured with our own fleeting ideations that we forget the only absolute of faith in the love of God, and His greater plans for us in righteousness? Or are we merely trapped in a cycle of pleasure or status seeking in idolatry, never recognising what binds all things together? The soul is not made to live in idolatry; it is made to find the truest wonderment and to seek our so humbled place in God’s plan.