Sentences with phrase «national idolatry»

But this double «betrayal» stemmed from a single motivation: Weil objected so adamantly to the national idolatry endemic in European (and particularly French) Christianity» the conceit that «holy France» was God's chosen people» that she blamed Israel and its God for inflicting the idea of election on the world in the first place.

Working backward from her abhorrence of national idolatry, according to Yourgrau, Weil's theology seeks to excise the fleshly, Jewish side of Christianity and repudiate the supposedly cruel God of the Hebrew Bible.

'» Weil rejected any and all connections with this tendency toward national idolatry.

By her way of thinking, the apparent cruelty of the Jewish God» the massacre of the firstborn of Egypt, the command to exterminate the whole tribe of Amalek, the razing of Jericho» encourages rather than counteracts the bloody European history of ethnic and national idolatry.

But the danger of national idolatry is just as significant.

The sin of national idolatry is called «patriotism.»

Catholics, who had tolerated a degree of ethnocentrism within the Church, learned from Hitler that national idolatry was Christendom's deadliest foe.

And as we struggle to be faithful in our own times of patriotic fervor, national idolatries and warmaking, we also need to grapple with Bonhoeffer's complex relationship to his own country.

Not exact matches

If that author is correct about «national pride and patriotism being a form of idolatry,» might that then not explain some of the internal problems we have within our respective nations?

One of the reasons I am thinking about all of this is because of the book I just read, Unmasking the Powers, and what the author said in there about the angels of nations, and how national pride and patriotism for the country could be a form of idolatry.