Post-Christian paganism has succeeded in capturing, for its own trivial and narrow ends, some of that wholehearted Christian devotion which ought to be given to God alone.The
idolatrous worship of organized human power is the fatal error which is common to all the varieties of our postwar paganism.
He summons us to the worship not of a womb or even of a tomb but of the God of justice who exposes
the idolatrous worship of nation and power.
That false practice of presence seduces us into
idolatrous worship of self, of nation, of ideology, so that the courage to lead a life of tough dignity and serious accountability disappears.
Fromm sees clearly that for many people Christianity is a thin veneer over
the idolatrous worship of power, success, and the authority of the marketplace; or it is a cover masking their idolatrous fixation on their clan, religious or ethnic group, or nation - state.
What was particularly distressing to me was the almost inveterate tendency in some quarters to identify what I called civil religion with
the idolatrous worship of the state.
Not exact matches
The valley
of Hinnom (Gehenna) was outside the walls
of Jerusalem, for a time thesite
of idolatrous worship, including child sarcrifice, In the first century Gehenna was being used as the incinerator for the filth
of Jerusalem.
Your kind is
idolatrous in that they seek to please themselves and
worship their own depraved lifestyle instead
of yielding to God.
The best way to meet Boswell's argument is to grant for a moment that the O.T. prohibitions reflect
idolatrous worship practices, that homosexual acts are wrong because they are used liturgically in false
worship of false gods and goddesses.
We can sum up what actually did become the way
of Christian living in the ancient world by saying that the Christians lived in the economic, political and social orders
of their time seeking new patterns but conforming to the general requirements
of the common life, and accepting constituted authority except when it required
idolatrous worship.
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 becomes
idolatrous when the symbols
of perfection are
worshiped as though they were the ultimate itself: when founders, prophets, and seers are deified, when infallible authority is ascribed to certain organizations and books, and when the performance
of rites is taken as a guarantee
of salvation.
He referred to his lectures as «Lay Sermons,» in which he damned his «
idolatrous age» for ignoring «the living God thundering from the Sinai
of science... to
worship the golden calf
of tradition.»
The non-
idolatrous worship of God is likewise a truly Mohammedan principle — Hindu
worship was generally not only polytheistic but
idolatrous.
From Cassie: Growing up Chinese, my parents found any visual depiction
of Christianity to be
idolatrous, which I believe is due to the fact that much
of the trappings
of high church tradition were too similar to the ancestor
worship with which they grew up.
But the Sabians were
idolatrous and polytheistic,
worshiping the stars and angels with a mixture
of pagan, Christian, and other rites.
Your worries
of this turning into
idolatrous worship is nothing more than a manifestation
of bad theology.
«The lack
of that sort
of prophetic distance from sports or the willingness to critique sports, the lack
of setting priorities so that the
worship of God is more important than this
idolatrous relationship with sports.»
This organization
of power may be local and sectional, or again it may attempt to embrace the whole
of mankind; and either the local tribe or humanity at large may be, and has been, erected into an object
of idolatrous worship.
Cult prostitution, scattered
idolatrous sanctuaries, the practice
of child sacrifice, and all objects and manifestations
of astral
worship (ancient Babylonian in origin, taken over by Assyria) are abolished.
This is obviously a major re-education process
of mankind in the Last Days to eliminate the
idolatrous image -
worshipping systems
of the religions
of the Earth.