Burning Man is the largest religious gathering of its kind in the United States.  Never heard of it?  Your kids or grandchildren have.  Find out what happens at Burning Man and you will begin praying for these lost people. They are searching for something–they just don’t know it is Jesus. Pray they will hear about the one true God who can satisfy them.

Exodus 20:3-6  You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,  but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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“Seventy thousand weirdos descend on the Nevada desert this week to bump uglies, welter in filth, and worship Moloch during America’s largest annual religious gathering: Burning Man. The festival began as a summer solstice bonfire ritual in 1986, when Bay Area artists “spontaneously” burned an eight-foot-tall wooden man, as well as a smaller wooden dog, in effigy. Where one spontaneously discovers a giant wicker man, and why one subsequently chooses to incinerate him is anybody’s guess. The ritual mirrored an identical ancient Druidic sacrifice described by Julius Caesar in his Commentary on the Gallic War, though Burning Man’s founders claim ignorance as to the custom’s origin. Today that solstice bonfire has grown into a week-long, annual bacchanal of sex, drugs, and pagan spirituality.

History repeats itself, per Marx, first as tragedy, then as farce. In the ancient tragedy, pagan Celts filled a giant wicker dummy with living men and burned them all alive. In the modern farce, besotted hippies ignite an empty wooden figure, a fitting symbol for an empty culture. Burning Man’s organizers describe the wooden statue, which they house “in a temple that is dedicated to the Golden Spike,” as being “like every one of us.” Ironically, festival organizers describe the man’s incineration as an act of “radical self-expression,” when in fact the ritual amounts to radical self-annihilation.

Religious language pervades the entire festival. Burning Man founder Larry Harvey describes the event in terms ripped from the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. “This may be the essential genius of Burning Man,” he explains. “Out of nothing, we created everything.” Harvey laid out the festival’s Ten Principles in 2004, which include “radical inclusion,” “radical self-reliance,” “radical self-expression” — anyone notice a pattern? — as well as “gifting” and “decommodification.” The exchange of money is prohibited at Burning Man, which costs between $390 and $1,200 per person to enter. Rounding out the list of principles are “participation” and “immediacy.” Harvey explains, “No idea can substitute for this experience.” Burning Man is not for Gnostics; it demands not just mind but body too. Read more about Burning Man here.

(The Daily Wire, reporting by Michael Knowles)