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| | Idolatry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | According to the Hebrew Bible, idolatry originated in the age of Eber, though some interpret the text to mean in the time of Serug; image worship existed in the time of Jacob, from the account of Rachel taking images along with her on leaving her father's house, which is given in the book of Genesis. | | | The commandments in the Hebrew Bible against idolatry forbade the beliefs and practices of pagans who lived amongst the Israelites at the time, especially the religions of ancient Akkad, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. | | | Furthermore, being an admittedly polytheistic religion, a criticism on grounds of idolatry is a non sequitur. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry
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| | CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2113 |
| | Idolatry rejects the unique Lordship of God; it is therefore incompatible with communion with God. | | | Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God. | | | Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods or demons (for example, satanism), power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money, etc. Jesus says, "You cannot serve God and mammon." Many martyrs died for not adoring "the Beast" refusing even to simulate such worship. |
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http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2113.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Idolatry |
| | Idolatry etymologically denotes Divine worship given to an image, but its signification has been extended to all Divine worship given to anyone or anything but the true God. | | | The specific note of idolatry is its direct opposition to the primary object of Divine worship; it bestows on a creature the reverence due to God alone. | | | The worship of one God is inculcated from the first to the last page of the Bible. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07636a.htm
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| | Theology-Idolatry |
| | In light of this radical antithesis of covenantal faith and idolatry it is not surprising that both torah and the prophets invariably identify forgetfulness of covenant with idolatry. | | | Idolatry is described in Hosea and throughout the prophets that follow as a form of prostitution. | | | Biblical faith recognizes this to be the case with idolatry. |
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http://crc.sa.utoronto.ca/articles/Jubilee.html
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| | Sample Chapter for Batnitzky, L.: Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered. |
| | Tillich's notion of idolatry is not confined to the epistemological realm, as is Wittgenstein's. | | | Second, "God and idolatry are codependent conceptually and in the lives of the faithful." | | | Rosenzweig's view of idolatry is a distinctly modern one in that it also offers a criticism of "religion." Rosenzweig's effort to think about idolatry as a modern possibility takes the form of a Jewish critique of modernity and some of its views of religion, ethics, national identity, art, and language. |
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http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/i6834.html
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| | Idolatry 2 |
| | Idolatry is defined as attributing the ability of change in the world to something other than God or the laws of nature He created. | | | That which is true is eternally true, and the truth that idolatry is false is 100% accurate. | | | Statues of Buddha, Jesus and the like, red bendels, rabbits feet, lucky charms, palm readers, kabbalists who instruct others to perform acts outside of Torah, the list is endless, unfortunately. |
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http://www.mesora.org/idolatry2.html
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| | OF IDOLATRY |
| | Idolatry is all manner of seeming holiness and worshipping, let these counterfeit spiritualities shine outwardly as glorious and fair as they may; in a word, all manner of devotion in those that would serve God without Christ the Mediator, his Word and command. | | | For all idolatry in the world arises from this, that people by nature have had the common knowledge, that there is a God, without which idolatry would remain unpracticed. | | | And again, they hold that for idolatry, which, in truth, is the upright and most acceptable service of God, the acknowledging Christ, and believing in him. |
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http://www.godrules.net/library/luther/NEWluther_c4.htm
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| | The Creed of Noah: Idolatry (Moshiach.com) |
| | It is idolatry to consume a food or a drink with the idea that it is the substance of a god and that the person consuming them is therefore assimilating the substance of the god into his own being. | | | According to many authorities, a Noahide is not warned about the concept of "partnership with God."[5] The concept of partnership is the acknowledgment of the existence of the God of Israel in combination with the belief in the possibility and existence of a deity (independent will) other than God. | | | However, even if the candles were knowingly extinguished without the intention of relighting them, they may not be used in any way for the honor of God or to fulfill a commandment, such as to illuminate a house of worship or to have light to study the Seven Laws of Noah. |
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http://www.moshiach.com/action/morality/idolatry.php
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| | Idolatry |
| | Though there is no evidence of idolatry during the time of Saul or David, the latter years of King Solomon set in motion a consistent pattern of idolatry in Israel (1 Ki. | | | The relationship between idolatry and demons is seen more clearly when we realize how intricately pagan religious practices are linked with spiritism, sorcery, divination, enchantment, witchcraft, necromancy, and the like (2 Ki. | | | The first story recorded in the Bible in which Israel as a whole engaged in idolatry was the worship of the golden calf while Moses was on Mount Sinai (Ex. |
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http://www.monthly-messenger.org/Topics/TOPIC_June01.HTM
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| | CHURCH FATHERS: On Idolatry (Tertullian) |
| | And thus it is that the Holy Scriptures use the designation of fornication in their upbraiding of idolatry. | | | Indeed, if he shall have ejected a demon, let him not congratulate himself on his faith, for he has not ejected an enemy; he ought to have had his prayer easily granted by one whom he is daily feeding. | | | But "both your birth and your substance are troublesome to you in resisting idolatry." For avoiding it, remedies cannot be lacking; since, even if they be lacking, there remains that one by which you will be made a happier magistrate, not in the earth, but in the heavens. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0302.htm
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| | Idolatry |
| | Idolatry is described by God as an abomination (Ezek.16:36), no matter who makes them or is worshipping them. | | | In the Bible the word “abomination” is a spiritual term associated with idolatry for those who leave God. | | | The Bible is clear: idolatry is false worship. |
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http://www.letusreason.org/RC2.htm
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| | Knowledge - Idolatry |
| | This is talking about idolatry, and teaches us that anyone who subscribes to idolatry denies all that the Torah and Prophets say and all that is commanded from [the time of] Adam until the end of the world, for it is written, "...from the day that the Lord gave command and forthwith throughout your generations". | | | Anyone who denies idolatry acknowledges all of the Torah and Prophets and all that is commanded from the time of Adam until the end of the world. | | | Sometimes he will adopt idolatry, and sometimes he will consider the oneness of the Creator - whether He exists or not, what is in heaven and beneath the ground, what existed before the world was created and what will be after it. |
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http://www.panix.com/~jjbaker/MadaAkum.html
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| | Indifference or Ignorance: The Practice of Idolatry Within the Church |
| | What was their Glory, and is the Church's glory, is in truth the Glory of God Himself and it cannot, and must not, be represented by an image of a man or a beast. | | | From God's perspective idolatry is spiritual adultery, so with the indignant reaction of a betrayed husband, He continues, "for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. " | | | Indifference or Ignorance: The Practice of Idolatry Within the Church |
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http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/reading/article.cgi?id=50
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| | Soul Idolatry |
| | Idolatry is to give that honor and worship to 'the creature', which is due to the Creator alone. | | | That for which we are most zealous, we worship as God. | | | To communicate it to other things is to give the worship of God unto them, and so to make them gods. |
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http://www.gracegems.org/SERMONS/Clarkson_soul_idolatry.htm
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| | Ikons or idols |
| | Idolatry, on the contrary, is offering worship (latria) to something other than God, to something that is a substitute for God in our mind. | | | Idolatry is when we worship and serve creatures rather than the creator (Romans 1:25), the gift rather than the giver. | | | In the world in which we live, idolatry is all around us. |
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http://www.orthodoxy.faithweb.com/ikonidol.htm
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| | Bibleinfo.com Idolatry |
| | Idolatry worships the created rather than the Creator. | | | You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing love to thousands who love Me and keep My commandments." |
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http://en.bibleinfo.com/topics/topic.html?id=140
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| | The True Nature of Spiritual Idolatry, by Steven Lambert, ThD |
| | Idolatry always has associated with it some form of false teaching, and false teaching is always an ilk of idolatry. | | | In simplistic terms, idolatry is making something or someone that to which we look to bring happiness, peace, fulfillment, contentment, and all the things only God is supposed to provide us, which in essence is the definition of a false god. | | | Contributing to the prevalence of idolatry within Christendom, no doubt, is the common perception by many that idolatry is something that occurs only in underdeveloped, far-away, foreign lands, or that it is something relegated mostly to ancient civilizations of past ages, while nothing could be further from the truth. |
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http://www.slm.org/trtdigst/articles/idolatry.html
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| | The Mass is Idolatry |
| | For idolatry is not only to worship that thing which is not God, but also to trust or lean unto that thing which is not God, and has not in itself all sufficiency. | | | And yet, to the great blasphemy of Christ& death, and open denial of his passion, it has been affirmed, taught, and believed, that the Mass was a sacrifice for the sins of the quick and the dead: which opinion is most false, vain, and wicked. | | | For in the instant hour when first the Litany[3] was recited in open procession (as they call it), four score of the principal men that recited the same were stricken horribly with the plague of God to death, all in one hour. |
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http://www.all-of-grace.org/pub/others/knoxmass.html
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| | Preface |
| | The form idolatry assumes in the visible Church of Christ. | | | (b) To my mind, it is idolatry to invoke the Virgin Mary and the saints in glory, and to address them in language never addressed in Scripture except to the Holy Trinity. | | | This is the sin, of all others, to which the Jews seem to have been most inclined to commit before the destruction of Solomon's temple. |
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http://www.biblebb.com/files/ryle/WARN8.HTM
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| | Idolatry (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net |
| | In Scripture, idolatry is regarded as of heathen origin, and as being imported among the Hebrews through contact with heathen nations. | | | Paul describes the origin of idolatry in Rom. | | | On taking possession of the land, the Jews were commanded to destroy all traces of every kind of the existing idolatry of the Canaanites (Ex. |
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http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/idolatry.html
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| | Going Beyond Abuse |
| | The manipulative use of religion by legalistic judgmental homophobic preachers is clear proof that their religion is idolatry and not a work of God. | | | The chief characteristic of idolatrous religion in the Hebrew Bible was the use of ritual and magic to control and manipulate the gods to do what the people wanted, not a faith based seeking after the will and purpose of God. | | | This makes prayer into a form of idolatry, not spirituality. |
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http://www.truluck.com/html/going_beyond_abuse.html
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| | Ask Noah - The mistakes that first led to idolatry. |
| | And the thing that had caused them to err in the first place, until the truth was completely foreign to them, was their worship of the stars. | | | It must also be firmly established in our minds that all created beings in the world have no existence in and of themselves, and thus, there is no rational grounds to suppose that any created being should be worshipped. | | | And with the passage of time, the most holy and awesome name of the true G-d was forgotten. |
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http://www.asknoah.org/HTML/big_mistake.html
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| | United Communities of Spirit |
| | For the monotheistic religions, the chief manifestation of ignorance is idolatry. | | | Literally the worship of images, idolatry in the broader sense means allegiance to false values that substitute for God. | | | Such satires are perhaps uncomprehending of genuine image-worship, in which the image is understood only as a representation of transcendent Reality and a means to focus the mind on God, who is beyond form. |
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http://origin.org/ucs/ws/theme050.cfm
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| | Secular Idolatry: The Modern Worship of Idols |
| | Any means which somebody believes is capable of taking care of him can easily be added to his personal temple of gods to be worshiped. | | | 1 John 2:15-17 Similarly, the person who becomes a friend of the world commits idolatry (spiritual adultery) and the love of the Father can not be in that person. | | | How can people who have dismissed the supernatural be idolaters? |
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http://www.sjchurchofchrist.org/godidol.shtml
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| | Flee Idolatry |
| | An idol, as the following verse from The Living Bible shows, is anything that takes God's rightful place in your life. | | | 5 Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. | | | Today many people do not realize they worship idols. |
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| | What's So Terrible about Idolatry? Chabad.org |
| | Concerning Idolatry, I and my family are observant of the sheva mitvot [seven universal commandments] and consider ourselves Rightous Gentiles. | | | I do believe that when Israel begins to share the sheva mitzvot with all the nations of the world we will begin to see lasting peace we all desire and the end to Idolatry. | | | Only we Israel takes its true place in the world as "the light unto the nations" will we see the advent of Moshiach. |
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http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=3201
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| | Freedom to practice idolatry |
| | They mean that America's lawmaking body is prevented from making laws prohibiting America's inhabitants from freely embracing whatever religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs, ideologies, weltanschuungs or opinions they desire, and from freely exercising the same. | | | The government allows for the accommodation of all forms of heathenism and makes no true distinction between true worship of the true God and idolatry, nor does it discourage idolatry. | | | Because the first amendment gives the inhabitants of America the so-called "right" to embrace and practice whatever idolatrous religions or weltanschauungs they desire, it actually inspires the creation of delusions and deceptions of every type. |
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http://www.tencommandments.org/idolatry.html
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| | John Wesley, Sermon 78: Spiritual Idolatry |
| | Accordingly, whatever takes our heart from him, or shares it with him, is an idol; or, in other words, whatever we seek happiness in independent of God. | | | To seek happiness either in gratifying this or any other of the desires above mentioned, is effectually to renounce the true God, and to set up an idol in his place. | | | In a word, so many objects as there are in the world, wherein men seek happiness instead of seeking it in God, so many idols they set up in their hearts, so many species of idolatry they practise. |
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http://gbgm-umc.org/umhistory/wesley/sermons/serm-078.stm
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| | Womb Worship Idolatry |
| | Numerous, modern church publications now assert that the husband MUST serve his wife, or he is not a Godly man! However, the Scriptues of our fore-fathers assert that Man must serve God FIRST, and then, by serving her Man, the woman also serves God. | | | However, because of Feminism's growing acceptance in the churches, this heresy of IDOLATRY is also spreading, so that instead of true worship of God, many churches are falling into the Idolatrous worship of the womb! | | | And you shall worship the Lord with all your heart (spirit), all your soul (mind), and all your strength (body)! |
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http://business.gorge.net/zdkf/family/wi-iww.html
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| | SoMA Review - The SoMA Idolatry Quiz - John D. Spalding |
| | Because there’s nothing infinite but God, it’s easy to do, especially for religious people who often mistake their beliefs, traditions, rituals, and sacred texts with the reality (note: lowercase r) to which they’re supposed to point. | | | Since there’s a growing confusion in America between idolatry and true faith, I’ve created the following quiz to help us better distinguish them. | | | Is your faith honest and genuine, or do you worship a golden calf? |
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http://www.somareview.com/somaidolatryquiz.cfm
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| | Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: Adultery & Idolatry |
| | An interesting article by David Klinghoffer on adultery and idolatry, as interpreted from the Ten Commandments in Jewish tradition. | | | If we are not prepared to affirm the exclusiveness of our relationship with God, His unique authority, why should the exclusiveness of our relationship with a spouse be sacrosanct? | | | There is an instructive insight in the structure of the Decalogue: |
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http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2005/09/adultery_idolat.html
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| | Covetousness ... a modern idolatry |
| | Why, in the Bible, is it called 'idolatry'? | | | The wise King Solomon also said (v.11): "Wealth acquired rashly [or hastily] dwindles away, but he who gathers by labor increases". | | | The apostle Paul urges Christians to 'flee idolatry'. |
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http://www.abcog.org/nh/covet.htm
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| | Acts 17:11 Bible Study: Idolatry |
| | I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel, who have all deserted me for their idols... | | | Therefore speak to them and tell them, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When any Israelite sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face and then goes to a prophet, I the Lord will answer him myself in keeping with his great idolatry. | | | Do We Take Idolatry As Seriously As God? |
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http://www.acts17-11.com/idolatry.html
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| | Idolatry |
| | [Nouns] idolatry, idolism; demonism, demonolatry; idol-worship, demon-worship, devil-worship, fire-worship; zoolatry, fetichism; ecclesiolatry, heliolatry, Mariolatry, Bibliolatry. | | | WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS |
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| | Recognitions of Clement on Idolatry and Baptism |
| | As these wicked angels, under the leadership of Satan, rule the entire evil world, so in particular they are the originators of the spiritual darkness of which idolatry is the most terrible evidence. | | | Hence all idol sacrifices, whatever the pagan ideas concerning them may be, are really sacrifices unto |
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| | CNN Interactive Chat Transcript |
| | What I do attack is the idolatry, the notion that the person who wrote these wonderful books will be your "catcher," the kind of people who troop to his house expecting him to be the one to understand them, to be their "catcher in the rye," and that's fair enough. | | | I think the things expected of him as the writer of the book are not appropriate. | | | And I don't think anything in my book should take away from the reader's cherished memory of reading his books, or new readers coming to them, fresh. |
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http://www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/2000/9/7/salinger
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| | The Apocryphal Book of Baruch on Idolatry. |
| | The following scripture quotations are taken from the Catholic Douay Rheims Bible: | | | In the apocryphal book of Baruch, which is considered to be inspired scripture by the Catholic Church, we find a very interesting description of the pagan practices of the Babylonians, who at the time held the Jews in captivity. | | | While not considered a book of the Bible by Protestants, there is no reason to doubt the accuracy of this historical account of Babylonian idolatry in the 6th chapter of Baruch. |
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http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/baruch.htm
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| | Idolatry |
| | This in short is the cause for all forms of idolatry. | | | The source, or psychological need which acts of idolatry strive to satisfy, are primal in nature. | | | I would add that the error made in projecting powers onto physical objects is an internal contradiction: If we hold that physical objects are created substances, this means that they have no power over themselvess, as they were brought into existence by something other than themselves. |
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http://www.mesora.org/idolatry.html
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| | Harry Potter and the Idolatry of Yore |
| | And, of course, sign the guestbook and let us know what you think! | | | Congratulations to Kaidan J.S. Whitehouse, the grand prize winner of the cover art contest! | | | Winners of the Idolatry of Yore Contest announced! |
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http://www.dprophet.com/iofy
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