“The Babylonians, in their popular religion, supremely worshipped a Goddess Mother and a Son, who was represented in pictures and in images as an infant or child in his mother’s arms. From Babylon, this worship of the Mother and the child spread to the ends of the earth. In Egypt, the Mother and child were worshipped under the names Isis and Osiris. In India, (even to this day) as Isi and Iswara, in Asia, Cybele and Deoius; in pagan Rome, as Fortuna and Jupiterpuer.” (The Two Babylons, Hislop)

In Jeremiah 7:18-19 and 44:1-30, you will find warnings against the worship of the “queen of heaven”. In Acts 19:35, we see Ephesians as “...worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter”, fearful:

“...that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.”

Today we see the mother-goddess alive through the personality of Mary. The emphasis on devotion to the Virgin Mary in particular is elevated during the feast of Christmas, where she is portrayed as the paragon of motherhood. Any other time of the year, the Christians will tell the Catholics it is wrong to make images and bow yourself before them as Ex.20:4-5 instructs, but during Christmas, millions of Christians take out their carefully stored nativity sets in place their Mother and child images proudly on the mantle for all to see. Why? Is it not still idolatry? Are there certain days we can commit iniquity and worship other gods? I don’t think so! I know God is a jealous God, for He says in Exodus 34:13-14:

“But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God...."

Let’s be careful, that we are not seduced, through he subtlety of Satan, into mother-goddess worship. The whole world is still worshipping the image in one way or another, but we are not of the world. (Jn.15:19)

Let us not go before the Lord and say that we were “...delivered to do all these abominations” (Jer.7:10).

By Diane M. Schoeppner