False religion supports the very system that is antagonistic toward the things of Christ. Even despots use religion to further their aims. In this country, Democrats and Republicans vie with each other for votes, using religious catchcalls to support their philosophies. Intellectual humanists seek a religion which will support them as an elite group in universities and places of learning. Sales managers search for religious speakers who will promote enthusiasm among their salesmen and thereby increase sales.
Coaches use religious speakers to extract better performances from the athletes they coach.
Radical feminists want religious trappings for the course they have demanded for the world. Religious terms, ideas and language are attached to what the world is already involved in so that its pride, arrogance and power-seeking is legitimized. False religion, as a result, never has to fear persecution because it supports the very institutions that oppose real Christianity. On the other hand, the apostle declares, 'The world has been crucified to me and I to the world. Abraham was a wanderer, a sojourner, who lived in a land he could not possess.