If there is one commandment that is usually thought to be irrelevant, it is the second commandment. However, it may be second in position because it is second in importance. This commandment is one that is probably the most easily ignored and, yet, the most blatantly broken.

In case you doubt that idolatry is alive and well right here in America, picture a newspaper article entitled, THE DEIFICATION OF ELVIS: Those who worship ‘the king’ practice their own form of religion. This newspaper writer thought at first it would be just a joke to “study Elvis worship as a religion.” Then she made this observation:

Perhaps it was the cross-shaped floral tributes lining the walk to his grave, or the women shedding tears over the Presley family plot that gave my idea more weight... mostly though it…