What Does the Bible Say About Burning Man?

What?

Burning Man is an annual week-long festival held in the middle of a desert, attended by over 70 ,000 people, and gets its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy. When you go to the Burning Man website, it says, Burning Man is not a festival.

Oh, my bad. It must have been the costumes, live music, and celebration that threw me off. So Burning Man is a temporary community based on 10 practical principles, which include radical inclusion, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression, and there are radical rituals.

Also, decommodification, advertising, and the selling of goods are prohibited at Burning.

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Idolatry, Immorality, and the Judgment of God

But admission will cost you over $1 ,000 on your Visa or MasterCard. All sales are final and no refunds will be issued for any reason. Someone's making bank off of this flim-flam. So tens of thousands of people gather for an annual event in the middle of nowhere, encouraging self-expression, rituals, and dancing around a large wooden idol.

What else will inevitably happen at this pagan gathering? Yep, drug use and sexual immorality. Burning Man is a pagan, drug-riddled orgy. 1 Peter 4, 3 -5 says, This is not new. People have been doing these pagan things for millennia, which include sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

With respect to this, they're surprised when you don't join them in the same flood of debauchery and they malign you. But they will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Repentance from Culture and Following Jesus Christ

And they call this festival Burning Man. Unless you repent of this culture and follow Jesus Christ, your radical self-expression is actually self-destruction when we understand the text.