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    Idolatry is the worship of a cult image or "idol" as though it were a deity. In Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, the Baháʼí...
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  • Idolatry in Judaism is prohibited. Judaism holds that idolatry is not limited to the worship of an idol itself, but also worship involving any artistic...
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    Sikhism prohibits idolatry, in accordance with mainstream Khalsa norms and the teachings of the Sikh Gurus, a position that has been accepted as orthodox...
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  • Mad Idolatry (1LAB13) 1:09 23. "Emergency Landing" Joel McNeely Mad Idolatry (1LAB13) 3:41 24. "Searching the Planet" Joel McNeely Mad Idolatry (1LAB13)...
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    to which idolatry, over time, will inevitably adhere." Even if the idea is pure in nature, Milton thought it would unavoidably lead to idolatry simply because...
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    has often been a contentious issue in Christian history. Concern over idolatry is the driving force behind the various traditions of aniconism in Christianity...
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    passage contains a complete definition of idolatry, the subject is addressed in numerous passages, so that idolatry may be summarized as the strange worship...
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  • Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry, a book by British philosopher Owen Barfield, is concerned with physics, the evolution of consciousness, pre-history...
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  • Extirpator of Idolatries (Spanish: Extirpador de idolatrías) is a 2014 Peruvian thriller drama film written and directed by Manuel Siles, completed in...
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  • شِرْك, lit. 'polytheism') in Islam is a sin often roughly translated as 'idolatry' or 'polytheism', but more accurately meaning 'association [with God]'...
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  • Western culture influenced Soviet life and culture in many ways. From the 1950s until the 1980s this influence was manifested in a widespread fascination...
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    Prohibition of idolatry is the central tenet of the Abrahamic religions and the sin of worshipping another god other than the Lord is called idolatry. Historically...
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    such as Reformed Christianity, where the practice is considered a form of idolatry. A saint can be assigned as a patron by a venerable tradition, or chosen...
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    adherents to renounce all other gods, a practice adopted from Judaism (see Idolatry). The Christians' refusal to join pagan celebrations meant they were unable...
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    even if early Jewish Christians, invoking the Decalogue's prohibition of idolatry, avoided figures in their symbols. The cross, today one of the most widely...
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    religious places of significance for fear that it may give rise to 'shirk' (idolatry), and the most significant historic Muslim sites (in Mecca and Medina)...
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    subject called in art the Idolatry of Solomon, the foreign wives are depicted as leading Solomon away from Yahweh toward idolatry because they worshiped...
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  • The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam is a 1999 book in the field of Quranic studies published by G. R. Hawting. The book explores the Quranic...
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    Avodah Zarah (Hebrew: עבודה זרה‎, or "foreign worship", meaning "idolatry" or "strange service") is the name of a tractate of the Talmud, located in Nezikin...
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    6, 2011. Dykoski, Rachel (November 1, 2008). "Book note: Presidential idolatry is "Bad for Democracy"". Twin Cities Daily Planet. Retrieved November 11...
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    competitions has been criticised by some Christian thinkers as a form of idolatry, in which "human beings extol themselves, adore themselves, sacrifice themselves...
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  • is someone who publicly entices many into idolatry. An enticer to idolatry may be both. Enticement to idolatry in Judaism is a capital offence under the...
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  • Chaim (2018). "The End of an Age: Idolatry as an Obsolete Superstition". God versus Gods: Judasim in the Age of Idolatry. Mosaica Press. pp. 244–276. ISBN 978-1946351463...
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    Indians" in 1876, a call later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak. Denouncing the idolatry and ritualistic worship, he worked towards reviving Vedic ideologies. Subsequently...
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  • "Vedas, Puranas, Tantras, Reformed sects" of India as well as "Brahminical idolatry", Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Lamaism, "religion of China and Japan", and...
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    Jacob would struggle to come out; whenever she would pass a house of idolatry, Esau would agitate to come out. Thinking that she was carrying one baby...
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    He is best known as the author of Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry and as a founding father of Anthroposophy in the English speaking world...
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    gluttony, whereas Francis Barrett asserted that Beelzebub was the prince of idolatry. Not only had the Pharisees disparagingly accused Jesus of using Beelzebub's...
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    For a Covetous Man to inveigh against Prodigality, an Atheist against Idolatry, a Tyrant against Rebellion, or a Lyer against Forgery, and a Drunkard...
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    an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship, while idolatry is the worship of an "idol" as though it were God. The use of images in...
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