Sentences with phrase «idolatry becomes manifest»

We can never collude when such idolatry becomes manifest, especially when it demands our public allegiance.

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Strategy becomes idolatry, for ancient Israel and for us today, when we make alliances with those who seem to offer strength — the chariots of Egypt, the vassal kings of Rome — at the expense of our dependence on God who judges all nations, and in defiance of God's manifest concern for the stranger, the widow, the orphan, and the oppressed.
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