idolatry

Example Sentences

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In its many guises, idolatry has survived, despite regular and often cataclysmic proof of its dangers, for centuries and many people will consider a much-larger-than-life golden statue of a president to be perfectly splendid.

From Los Angeles Times

He then issued a religious edict, or fatwa, that allowed image-making and the depiction of living beings for scientific and educational purposes, so long as it did not lead to idolatry.

From New York Times

Muslims consider images of the prophet to be sacrilegious and encouraging of idolatry.

From Washington Times

Anyone speaking of Kissinger’s sincerity will forgive me if I do not indulge in such idolatry.

From Salon

Rand isn’t a character but the object of undue idolatry for Anna, a 39-year-old writer whose own “satire of the opioid epidemic” has just been called “classist” by the New York Times.

From Los Angeles Times