Niebuhr's message to a generation that has become idolatrous in its worship of «the American way of life» is his reminder that «we must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood within our truth.» (religion-online.org)
They fought each other to extinction, and on their ruins was established that Roman Empire which became an object of idolatrous worship in its turn. (religion-online.org)
Faith in Jesus Christ is often, perhaps usually, expressed in idolatrous forms, such that the relative is absolutized, the partial is treated as a whole. (religion-online.org)