It seems perfectly correct to me to stop government enforcement of
idolatry by removing all mention of God in public documents and meetings.
Mitchell in an extraordinary essay, "Landscape and
Idolatry: Territory and Terror," dissects how the ideology of Zionism connects to an alleged biblical landscape in which Palestine is promised to the Jews and where all the inhabitants must be driven from the land in the face of the Jewish crossing of the Jordan into Canaan.
THE IDEA OF
IDOLATRY AND THE EMERGENCE OF ISLAM FROM POLEMIC TO HISTORY
Classically, the Western religions have attempted to distinguish between spiritual worship and
idolatry. This is of course a normative distinction, first made within the Jewish tradition in its early form in ancient Israel, and continued by later Judaism, by Christianity, and by Islam.
"What an experience to have that incredible mind and soul leave that body." The cult of personality thus gives rise to
idolatry, it's secular version perfected by the boomers in their on-going vigils for John Lennon.
Horton, accuses the religious right of "
idolatry": "Capitalism replaces God and His prominence with the `Invisible Hand of the Market"' and is "essentially materialistic and hostile to spiritual realities."
The idea of
idolatry is one full of philosophical interest, involving issues of representation, identity, intention, valuation and imagination, as well as more specifically religious issues having to do with deification and worship.
In Christian legend, a young woman of Alexandria who spoke out against the Roman emperor's
idolatry. She was said to have outreasoned 50 of the emperor's philosophers.
The first part of this essay introduces the forces in contention in this part of the seventeenth-century Andes: on the one hand, the "
idolatry inspections" (visitas de idolatria) and their machinery of coercion, and on the other, post-evangelization Andean religion.
18:4) The serpent as an object of
idolatry which has to be destroyed is closer to Dryden's representation of Corah/Oates than the serpent as a means of healing.
He took as the motto of the paper: "If you see it in the Sun, it's so." He gave up his idealistic beliefs and dedicated himself to a doctrine of laissez-faire and to an
idolatry of capitalistic enterprise, but he violently attacked the graft that developed in Grant's administration.
This follows after PAS Youth chief Muhammad Khalil Abdul Hadi had warned Muslims not to celebrate Christmas as it has an element of 'syirik' (
idolatry), which is against Islamic teachings.
This meant that Jews had to take care not just to avoid actual
idolatry, but not to assist the
idolatry of gentiles or to be complicit with it in any way.
The first is a satirical presentation of
idolatry and the second consists of interwoven passages that are hymnic, psalm-like, and do not refer at all to
idolatry but focus exclusively on YHWH.
