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A feast of dedication; yet he calls it a feast to Jehovah; for as brutish as they were, they did not design to terminate their adoration in the image; but they made it for a representation of the true God...yet this did not excuse them from gross idolatry.” – John Wesley	added by anonymous 5 years ago
In suggesting that God is ‘queer’ Swarthmore College is guilty of nothing short of modern day idolatry, when you read the Bible you will discover that God reserved His harshest condemnation for individuals and nations that practiced idolatry – creating an imaginary god who conformed to a culture’s immorality. – Robert Jeffress	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
When you read the Bible you will discover that God reserved His harshest condemnation for individuals and nations that practiced idolatry – creating an imaginary god who conformed to a culture’s immorality. – Robert Jeffress	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Sometimes they worship and practice Islam, sometimes they do idolatry, my sisters are uncovered, lack knowledge of a religion. I wish they knew at least how to cover themselves up. – Abdurasul Juraboev Juraboev	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Gospel does not condemn the wealthy, but the idolatry of wealth, the idolatry that makes people indifferent to the call of the poor. – Pope Francis	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. – Northrop Frye	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle. – Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by patriotism I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare --never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship. – Erich Fromm	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air? – Mary Baker Eddy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice. – Gilbert Chesterton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. – Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god. – Clive Staples Lewis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented. – John Calvin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. – Martin Luther	added by anonymous 14 years ago

A feast of dedication; yet he calls it a feast to Jehovah; for as brutish as they were, they did not design to terminate their adoration in the image; but they made it for a representation of the true God...yet this did not excuse them from gross idolatry.”

– John Wesley

added by anonymous
5 years ago

In suggesting that God is ‘queer’ Swarthmore College is guilty of nothing short of modern day idolatry, when you read the Bible you will discover that God reserved His harshest condemnation for individuals and nations that practiced idolatry – creating an imaginary god who conformed to a culture’s immorality.

– Robert Jeffress

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When you read the Bible you will discover that God reserved His harshest condemnation for individuals and nations that practiced idolatry – creating an imaginary god who conformed to a culture’s immorality.

– Robert Jeffress

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Sometimes they worship and practice Islam, sometimes they do idolatry, my sisters are uncovered, lack knowledge of a religion. I wish they knew at least how to cover themselves up.

– Abdurasul Juraboev Juraboev

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The Gospel does not condemn the wealthy, but the idolatry of wealth, the idolatry that makes people indifferent to the call of the poor.

– Pope Francis

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

– Northrop Frye

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

– Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by patriotism I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one's own nation, which is the concern with the nation's spiritual as much as with its material welfare --never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

– Erich Fromm

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

– Mary Baker Eddy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

– Gilbert Chesterton

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

– Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

– George Bernard Shaw

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

– Clive Staples Lewis

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

– John Calvin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

– Martin Luther

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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