Greek Mythology, Spirit Man, and "Christians"

Yesterday's Bible Study lesson was from Acts 17 where we find Paul in Athens discussing Jesus with basically everyone from the Jews, to the customers in the market, to the Epicureans and Stoics. It is a pretty interesting passage because it reminded me of people today. Paul was in Athens because he was chased out the Thessalonica and Berea by the Thessalonian mob. When he arrived in Athens he was pretty disturbed by what he saw. People everywhere were worshiping idols in temples dedicated to gods of every shape, size, and importance. What amazes me is that the Athenians actually believed in these gods. If you've studied any Greek mythology you know the soap opera-esk quality of the gods. Zeus kills Cronus and frees his siblings from his belly. Zeus marries his sister Hera and has many kids while cheating on Hera with mortal women. Athena jumps out of Zeus' head, Aphrodite marries Hephestus, but has an affair with Ares and on and on. It reminds me of your typical SE Texas white trash family. Where to people come up with this stuff. No wonder Paul was disturbed. Serving one true God who came to Earth to redeem mankind and who wants a personal relationship with you and wants you to stay away from graven images of Him, but rather worship him in Spirit and in truth seems almost boring compared to the tales of the Gods. That's just it though...if God was unholy and acted just like us, why would he be worth worshiping? Even more disturbing was what I saw still happening today on the National Geographic channel. In the far east a man the call the "Spirit Man" is cast into a crowd of men that has gathered to touch him to cast their bad luck on him for the year. Did I mention that the crowd was like 500 men and ALL of them want to touch this one guy. After two hours of crushing pressure the poor guy was unconscious and had to be pulled in a tug of war through a shrine window to safety. After 8 hours he has to participate in another ritual to cast off the bad luck for the whole village. The poor guy couldn't even walk so they dragged him around for the ritual while he hung limp in their arms. Again - I just don't get it. Where does this come from and why do people still believe this?
Then again, we see people everyday who call themselves Christians and we even acknowledge them as such. People who go to church regularly, maybe even Sunday School. We assume because they can answer the softball size questions that we throw out that they truly have a saving belief and relationship with Jesus Christ. Deep in their heart, they despise what Christianity is all about. The lust for things of the flesh with pornography, they lie and steal at work, they mentally or physically abuse their wife or their children, they cheat God out of his money and all while telling others that they love Jesus.
Which is more scary? Those who are cold and don't know a lick about Jesus? At least they can plead ignorance (not that it's going to help). Or those who are lukewarm pretenders who acknowledge Christ with their lips but deny Him with their life? Revelation 3:16 makes it clear what Jesus thinks when he says, "So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
Lord, Help me see the idols, speak the truth to those who are without it, and stoke the fire to keep me from cooling to lukewarm. Amen.