The Puritans who came to colonize America were Protestant and did not celebrate holidays of the Catholic church, as they were believed to lead to idolatry.
International appeals and concern are only likely to make that more probable, since IS, which sees ancient monuments as idolatry, delights in outraging world opinion.
And yet here in chapter 10, as they're signing this covenant, there is this collective decision of like, no, we're going to be faithful to this, that we're going to live up to this, that we're choosing not idolatry.
So we have become obsessed, understandably, With money the idolatry of the dollar and these tech innovators has gone berserk and so the pursuit of the dollar in my opinion has crowded out almost all.
As all the members of the family adored each other, and as Mr. Welland was the central object of their idolatry, it never occurred to his wife and May to let him go to St.
To him He looked up with a respect approaching idolatry: He sought his company with the most attentive assiduity, and eagerly seized every means to ingratiate himself in his favour.
In my opinion, idolatry, the thought-provoking social phenomenon, is a double-edged sword which can exert profound influence for either good or bad on the growth of young people.
But what people are reacting against is the tyranny of subjectivism that has come from the exaltation of private judgment and the idolatry of individual autonomy.
When Joram saw Jehu he asked, " Have you come in peace, Jehu" ? " How can there be peace, " Jehu replied, " as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound" ?
In affirming that God is not a being, l've certainly held off idolatry, but have l left us thereby in an intellectual lurch doomed simply to remain silent about God?
For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.