America’s adopted goddess Libertas stands at America’s gateway, opening the door to national sin for the amoral.

Part II in a series – see Part I America’s False Goddess has Ensnared the Country in a Demonic Trap

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A Symbol of Freedom with a Twist

To immigrants who crossed the Atlantic in dire conditions, the Statue of Liberty was a source of joy, hope, and celebration. As she came into sight, some people would scream, some would cry, and some would even dance.

What did they think of this colossal lady standing at the harbor entrance on their way to Ellis Island? As a writer for the Oklahoman stated, “the island [Ellis] could be a grim place. The statue, with her upheld torch, was uplifting, goddesslike.”

This description is interesting because the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, created her based on the Roman goddess Libertas. But let’s look at how some immigrants described her.

Anna Salvia came to America from Ukraine in 1923 at age 13 “thought the statue was a religious monument.”

Barbara Barondess arrived from Russia in 1921 when she was 14. Huddled together, sick and afraid, she “spent almost the whole night outside of the building praying to the Statue of Liberty …”

Another woman, Ann Vida, who immigrated from Hungary at age 10 in 1921, said, “We heard that in America there was no royalty.” She wondered, “why the crown?”

Even Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Singer noted, “They believed in her like in a kind of goddess.”

These are the impressions of children, who saw the statue for what it is – a royal goddess standing at America’s gates.

Between 1886 to 1924, nearly 14 million immigrants entered America via this gate. This event earned Ellis Island the name Gateway to America. As they did, they passed by the Statue of Liberty, giving thanks, worship, and even prayer to her.

So what has been the impact on America of millions of future citizens honoring this goddess idol as they passed through its gates?

The Root and Fruit of Goddess Libertas

It is no secret that the Stature of Liberty is based on the Roman goddess Libertas. As Reuters reported, the National Park Service’s website even stated this fact (though since removed).

Like liberty, the goddess Libertas has a dual nature. To the moral, liberty is virtuous, but to the amoral, it becomes the freedom to do as one pleases. The goddess Libertas promises freedom, but when her freedom becomes freedom from righteousness, it becomes slavery to sin (Romans 6). For this reason, she is a gateway to sin.

The Bible also tells us that idols result in poisonous fruit. Here is a paraphrase of Deuteronomy 29:17-18. “…you have seen their abominations and their idols… so that there will not be among you … to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.“

Under the curse of idolatry, the amoral cross a gateway to the immoral. In their immorality, they seek fleshly desires including materialism, selfishness, wanton sexuality, and homosexuality, along with the liberty to abort their unwanted children.

Is it possible that worshipping this idol of Libertas has contributed to these issues in the U.S.?

Goddess Libertas Elevated

Significantly, the Statue of Liberty has a feature that elevates her above Roman idols of Libertas – her crown. Unlike Libertas’ typical headdress, either a laurel crown or a pileus (a hat of freed slaves), the Liberty Statue has a crown of solar rays. This crown is typical of a sun god, not Libertas.

This element comes from ancient roots, the Colossus of Rhodes. Her sculptor, Bartholdi, was inspired by the Colossus in designing her. The poem commemorating the Statue of Liberty, memorialized on a plaque inside the statue, is even entitled The New Colossus. The Colossus represented the sun god Helios, the favored god of Ptolemy I, who founded the Egyptian Ptolemaic Empire. Ptolemaic rulers portrayed themselves as Helios, as demonstrated on a coin depicting Ptolemy III with a crown of solar rays.

An almost identical crown of Helios’ solar rays appears Liberty or Libertas on the Peace dollar, which premiered in 1921. And sun imagery also appears on two coins recently issued.

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The solar crown elevates Libertas to a higher status. Instead of the freedom cap of a former slave, she now stands as ruler of the sky. In her coronation, she takes on Helios’ or Apollo’s significance to the Greeks, Ra or Horus to the Egyptians, or one of tens if not hundreds of names given to a sun-god by almost every ancient civilization. There are several examples of Helios and Apollo statues with solar crowns, much like the Statue of Liberty.

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So what could be the consequences of a colossal idol of the gateway goddess Libertas, wearing Helios’ crown, standing at the Gateway of America?

A Country Ensnared

Millions of immigrants have passed through the gateway overlooked by the statue. And an average of four million people visit the statue each year. This volume may only increase with the addition of a new $70 million museum in 2019. Is there any doubt that the American people pay tribute to this statue?

Lillie Devereaux Blake, a women’s suffrage advocate, penned these words as she stared at the statue’s unveiling from a boat. “… the air was rent with salvos of artillery fired to hail the new goddess; the earth and the sea trembled with the mighty concussions, and steam-whistles mingled their shrill shrieks with the shouts of the multitude—all this done by men in honor of a woman.”

Why do we ignore what she truly is? How can we deny the possible consequences?

Her full name is Liberty Enlightening the World, yet there is only one light of the world. She stands with broken chains at her feet, but there is only one chain-breaker. Her freedom is false freedom, while those freed by Jesus Christ are free indeed (John 8:36).

Libertas is personal freedom. She grants us the right to do as we please, the same phrase Daniel repeatedly used to describe the Antichrist.

When we look at the nation today, we can see the abuse of personal freedom expressed in sins such as atheism, immorality, violence, hatred, intolerance, pornography, and abortion. How can we deny that the false freedom she has promised has contributed to these sins?

For anyone who has read the Bible, I leave you with this question. How could a colossal adored idol standing at America’s gates not have consequences on the nation?

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