Since Adam had a personal relationship with God Himself, it is hard to understand how humanity could go so far astray with paganism. God’s presence should have been crystal clear! Actually, paganism is the result of three things: a lack of abstract thought, arrogance, and the use of religion to control people. In this fascinating and often funny lecture, Rabbi Wein explains how these factors played out through history and points out the modern forms of idolatry that plague our world today.

• Enosh, the first pagan in the Torah
• Pharaoh, the archetype of pagan arrogance
• the great attraction of nature worship
• the theory of social evolution and its devastating affect on history