Here is a quote from Harry Smith of the CBS Early Show broadcast this morning as he reflects on 2009...
"Politics, and patriotism and the presidency: it is the place where the secular and the religious merge. One of the sacraments of our national religion is the inauguration. So it was that as many as two million pilgrims made their way to Washington and the Mall to witness this most sacred event."
The unbelieving world has nothing but the unbelieving world to put its hope and faith in, hence the worship of the current president.
Let's live 2010 as those who are looking forward to a better country, a heavenly one (Hebrews 11:16).
P.S. About the above picture:
Statue of the Emperor Octavian Augustus
This statue was created after the death of Octavian (reigned 31st BC-14 th AD), during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius. The worship of the emperor began even during the lifetime of Octavian (in 27 BC the Senate awarded him the title Augustus: the Holy, divine Son, father of the native land, descendant of Venus and Aeneas), and under his successors this became an official cult. Here the emperor is represented as Jupiter, the supreme God of the Roman pantheon, and this statue is a typical example of Roman sculpture from the time of the Empire. The composition was adapted from the celebrated sculpture of Zeus by Phidias, which allowed the placing of the appropriate attributes in Augustus's hands: a Nike and a sceptre. The sculptor preserved the emperor's portrait features, but idealized them to create a formal cult statue.
(info from the State Hermitage Museum)
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