Zitat des Tages über Götzendienst / Idolatry:
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted forty-five years. Our own Globalization, with its technocratic and technological determinism and market idolatry, had thirty years. And now it, too, is dead.
And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
