idolatrous

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I have seen at first hand a variety of experiences where workers united in cooperatives and other forms of community organization were able to create work where there were only crumbs of an idolatrous economy.

From Time • Jul. 10, 2015

By the time of the English Civil War, church monuments were being smashed as idolatrous; wall paintings were covered with whitewash, brass plaques melted down for profit.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2013

Some Muslims observe the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, while others think the practice idolatrous.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2012

Most were thought to have been destroyed after Spanish officials decreed them to be idolatrous in 1583.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2010

As he beheld it, the scales fell at last from the eyes of Gaston de Launay, and he saw what this woman was whom he had worshipped with such mad, blind, idolatrous passion.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida