To be a moderate is to be at war with idolatry.
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Her unprecedented success is the target of both idolatry and ire.
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Speaking of idolatry, "Adam" (as in Neumann) is mentioned 169 times, vs.
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Taken to its logical end, those who worship other humans are committing idolatry.
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But I think our idolatry of youth and innovators has gone haywire here.
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Idolatry can be dangerous, I know, but not if you choose your heroes carefully.
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In it we read: 'Allah will not tolerate idolatry...the pagans pray to females.
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" She said, "Never will we be beholden to one political party, because that is idolatry.
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If #MeToo was about the blind idolatry of people, it could be in trouble now.
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In 1769 Garrick organised a jubilee of Shakespeare's birth, to celebrate "the god of our idolatry".
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But in the view of Hisbah, the new morality police, the shrines were places of idolatry.
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Hate is still just hate, no matter how intricately ornamented it is with Ronald Reagan idolatry.
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They want to establish a culture of idolatry, where students profess uncritical love of the nation.
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How shall I speak thee, or thy power address, 460 Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
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ISIS has damaged other archaeological sites in both Syria and Iraq, perceiving them as monuments to idolatry.
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How they think about idolatry and compassion and fear and putting others' needs ahead of your own.
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"It's not our aim to establish a museum of idolatry," said Vojko Obersnel, the mayor of Rijeka.
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According to that ideology, the depiction of living creatures is un-Islamic because it can lead to idolatry.
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Religious police still sit outside some of the sites, shooing away pilgrims with warnings about idolatry, he said.
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Despite a cultural idolatry of 13-something entrepreneurs, youth is not everything in the world of building businesses.
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They consider veneration and respect of most holy sites and visitations of graves as a form of idolatry.
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We published one hard-hitting editorial in 2016 asking if voters had fallen into the sin of idolatry.
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The militants implemented an extreme version of Islam which associated toys with a face, like dolls, with idolatry.
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Many Islamist rebels in Aleppo follow Salafist Muslim ideas that hold shrines and tombs to be tantamount to idolatry.
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Edward's ministers set out to destroy idolatry in church, including saints' paintings, church silver, inappropriate altars and glitzy vestments.
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" Derek Weimer said the 22019-year-old had "this fascination with Nazism and a big idolatry of Adolf Hitler.
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Saudi clerics announced that these tombs perpetuated idolatry, in which people prayed not to God, but to human intercessors.
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" The faith's official website states that abstaining from blood is "as important as abstaining from sexual immorality and idolatry.
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They have destroyed a number of historical sites across their self-declared caliphate, viewing such ruins as monuments to idolatry.
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Out there, for all the talk of idolatry and infidels, discussions could be brisk and purposeful, boundaries porous, identities fluid.
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Both abhorred idolatry and intercession, and both relied on their books, the Bible and the Quran, for direct contact with God.
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All of this troubles Foer, who delivers a passionate argument for the public to wake up and reconsider its tech idolatry.
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But it also has harsh punishments, including stoning and even burning to death, for crimes such as adultery, blasphemy and idolatry.
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" And as she herself claims, "The hazard of idolatry is the wish to have an object perfectly adjusted to our needs.
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Pence talked about her faith, sharing a story about recognizing idolatry in her own life, according to The Greensburg Daily News.
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Bloom's conception of poetry as a self-enclosed system that referred to nothing but itself, she charged, was a form of idolatry.
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So what to make of boxer Muhammad Ali (Peace Be Upon Him), a man deserving of idolatry if ever there was one?
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As Andy Crouch points out in his book "Playing God," idolatry is seductive because in the first phase it seems to work.
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She was constantly confronted by the figure of her sister Diana, a political extremist who possessed an otherworldly power of commanding idolatry.
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Though none of the sculptor's artworks name de Sade as a source, studio notes and sketches ruminate on seduction, idolatry, and fetishism.
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In it, Mr. Cahn likens Mr. Trump to the biblical king Jehu, who led the ancient nation of Israel away from idolatry.
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Such is the reality The Boys reveals behind the idolatry: greed and grift and outright homicide, all the while preaching exceptionalism and sanctimony.
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Originally dismissed by Christians as mere idolatry, the rituals underscore a core tenet Yael Martínez heard as he explored the region's indigenous religion.
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You have all heard the underpinnings of this idolatry: "God Bless America," which I see as the words of a bankrupt neoliberal theology.
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The League objected to its singing as it depicted India as Mother Goddess, which the League construed to promote idolatry, anathema to Muslims.
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As with any novel featuring a distant object of idolatry, this one succeeds only to the extent that Margo is worth getting to know.
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This unembarrassed idolatry wasn't just for Aurelia's benefit; Plath carried on much in the same way with her brother, their mutual friends, Ted's parents.
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Prompted by his friend André Breton, Alberto Giacometti first read de Sade in 1933, and his studio notes ruminated on seduction, idolatry, and fetishism.
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We are instead in the midst of a dangerous form of idolatry that praises unmitigated power, valorizes American nativism and borders on neo-fascism.
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Long before he founded Pennsylvania, the Quaker William Penn would argue that when applied to individuals, the plural "you" was a form of idolatry.
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ObfuscationEvading regulators, tax avoidance, a 1,000-person communications department, exploiting our culture&aposs idolatry of innovators — these weapons have rendered CNBC Amazon&aposs b----.
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It's a movie with dire warnings about everything from technological over-reliance to corporate idolatry to environmental abuse, yet never dwells on any of them.
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It was the universal sentiment both of the church and of heretics, that the daemons were the authors, the patrons, and the objects of idolatry.
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The pre-Islamic era is dismissed as the age of ignorance, its relics deemed ungodly, and some clerics even see patriotism as tantamount to idolatry.
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From Martin Luther onward, major Protestant thinkers have violently criticized what they've characterized as the "idolatry" or "superstition" or even "paganism" of the Catholic aesthetic.
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Mr. Kline won a Tony for what Ben Brantley called his "witty athleticism and derring-do" as Garry Essendine, a matinee idol exhausted by idolatry.
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William and his older sister, Lillian, refused to perform the salute to the flag because, as Jehovah's Witnesses, they believedthis was a form of idolatry.
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Each of the dormitories at Maulbronn, for instance, had a grandiose name; Hesse lived in Hellas, a tribute to the school's conventional idolatry of ancient Greece.
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The pre-Islamic era is dismissed as the age of ignorance and its relics are deemed ungodly, and some clerics even see patriotism as tantamount to idolatry.
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A leaflet titled "Types of Idolatry", lies beside empty cartons of orange juice drunk by the recruits and packaging of the boots and balaclava headgear they wore.
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Through their voices, Vollmann gives a documentary accounting of life on the margins, riffing on such themes as bigotry, idolatry, gender fluidity, vulnerability, consent, resilience and love.
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It's part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don't want to participate in that.
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Idolatry is what happens when people give ultimate allegiance to something that should be serving only an intermediate purpose, whether it is money, technology, alcohol, success or politics.
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If that scares some readers, consider that we have a president whose gut-level ideology is isolationism, governed by impulsiveness, saturated with ignorance and motivated by self-idolatry.
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The "Piss Christ" artist's surprise exhibition of Trump memorabilia speaks to the darkest corridors of American idolatry, but does the artist speak for the nation or just himself?
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Participants are moving beyond the idolatry of the free market to a conversation about economic justice that doesn't align so neatly with culture war clichés or party platforms.
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Imagining Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Kanye West as fickle, narcissistic, and divine beings with supernatural powers makes as much sense as any theory about what drives idolatry and fame.
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The militant group banned toys with faces or eyes during the three years they controlled Iraq's second largest city, including any anthropomorphic animals, which they deemed a form of idolatry.
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"Erik Mark Sandberg's bold color choices (fluorescents and neons) have a very manufactured, artificial quality which reinforces his exploration of today's consumer culture, celebrity idolatry and social dysfunction," Chefas explains.
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Local sources said some of the worshippers were Sufis, whom groups such as Islamic State consider targets because they revere saints and shrines, which for Islamists is tantamount to idolatry.
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"Peace to the peoples who suffer because of the economic ambitions of the few, because of the sheer greed and the idolatry of money, which leads to slavery," he said.
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But like Trump — who won the Indiana primary — amidst all that winning have been countless incidents of loutish, misogynistic and abusive behavior rooted in unchecked narcissism and nurtured by idolatry.
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He claims to detect a "pantheistic idolatry of nature" similar in tone to an anthem penned in 1913 for a socialist workers' movement and later adopted by the Hitler Youth.
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I am glad to hear an album in which he carved out a little space in his idolatry of wealth to also honor his mother, his wife, and his children.
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The overlap of black paranoia and celebrity idolatry compromises the safety and sanctity of black sexual assault survivors, through aggressive rhetoric and the non-action surrounding the violation of their bodies.
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He popularized a genre of poetry praising the beautiful youths of Ottoman cities, beginning his own collection, "Şehrengiz-i Edirne," with a supplication to Allah to forgive his boy-crazy idolatry.
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Lutherans like Bach certainly would have condemned as a grievous sin of idolatry any notion that the essence of a piece of music is, or turns into, the essence of God.
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The love of moving fast and breaking things is little more than hacker idolatry, and so the quirks and foibles of a tiny subculture infuse the technology that drives the modern world.
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Additionally, worshipping at shrines is considered idolatry under Saudi Arabia's austere official Wahhabi school of Islam and it is unclear which Islamic historical sites pilgrims might be lured to after years of neglect.
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Most absurdly, it has agreed to move a statue of justice, depicted as a blindfolded woman in a sari, from in front of the supreme court, to placate protesters railing against idolatry (see article).
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" Fields' social media is awash with Nazi iconography, and his former history teacher told the Washington Post: "It was obvious that he had this fascination with Nazism and a big idolatry of Adolf Hitler.
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Kosher isn't about being blessed; it's about being watched and being handled only by Sabbath observers from ferment to corkscrew — a rule that was an attempt to protect against wine being used for idolatry.
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Arabiya news channel and some local sources said some of the worshippers were Sufis, whom groups such as Islamic State consider targets because they revere saints and shrines, which for Islamists is tantamount to idolatry.
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The book seems intended as a bracing antidote to the phenomenon that Klarman has elsewhere labeled "constitutional idolatry," his term for "our misguided tendency to blindly worship the Constitution" and the men who wrote it.
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It's about culpability, idolatry, and the doomed result of dumping a complex mass of problems onto one specific set of shoulders (whether that's Stan's problems on Eminem, or a society's problems on celebrities in general).
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Some fundamentalists see the reverence for saints, which is common in Shiite Islam, as a form of idolatry, because in their view it shows devotion to something other than the worship of a singular God.
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Mr. Moon, at the center of the factionalism and political idolatry, is looking less like an agent of positive change, and the country's vulnerability to a political faction shows how fragile this democracy still is.
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Depicting Muhammad is considered idolatry in Islam, and controversies over newspaper caricatures prompted riots in 85033 and a shooting that killed 12 people at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2014.
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Founded some 400 years ago, it's the largest sacred grove to have survived the spread of Christianity and Islam in Nigeria (in the intervening years, many groves were destroyed, deemed an unacceptable symbol of pagan idolatry).
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The image of a convicted drug lord encircled in rhinestones may be jarring for some, but others feels it's a form of cultural iconography symbolizing the many contradictions of El Chapo idolatry and Mexican-American identity.
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He says that the rise of "idolatry of innovators," coupled with the halving of journalists, has allowed for a culture that rewards and enables incremental tasks in companies like We.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
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"I don't think it's a failure for Amazon, but a sign of changing times where the idolatry of tech innovators — and their firms — has peaked," said Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU's Stern Business School.
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Last year, in its takeover of the city, ISIS blew up both structures, along with the famed Arch of Triumph, which was constructed under Roman rule during the late second century, calling them monuments to idolatry.
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While one aspect of the new plan was for a huge Islamic museum, even that may cause friction: Wahhabi doctrine holds the display of ancient artefacts, even those associated with the Prophet Mohammed, to risk committing idolatry.
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At the heart of all theistic religions is the idea that the worship of, or excessive attachment to, anything or anyone other than God is something to be avoided: a sinful distraction at best, idolatry at worst.
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But it does make me think, what is it about punk, which is supposed to be so anti-authority, yet has idolatry in its own way, that— That's the essence of anything and all things, isn't it?
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" But as Strau strives to realize his wish by making "prototypes" of painted angels, the sincerity of the image becomes threatened: "the fear of doing idolatry and the fear of doing heresy was becoming a balancing act.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday offered a Christmas hope for peace in a world lacerated by war and terrorism, urging people to remember migrants, refugees and those hit by economic instability caused by "idolatry of money".
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The overweening pride, lust for power and idolatry of worshiping the state that characterizes so many of today's conservative evangelicals will at some point probably doom them, but only when the criticism comes from within their own ranks.
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The move foreboded increased censorship of public art for religious reasons: the decision was a concession to demands by members of Islamist organizations including Hefazat-e-Islam and Olama League, who argued that artworks representing humans amount to idolatry.
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Still, Sanders has shown fondness for the Christian leader, saying recently he was "a very great fan" of the Pope and his messages, especially on the need to pay attention to the dispossessed and avoid the idolatry of money.
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He belongs to a dying breed of people who still see the American Dream as an attainable reality, and his McDonald's fandom is rooted in his idolatry of the three men who made the company what it is today.
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Recognizable examples of stan culture can be found in pop star idolatry online, and how queer men especially, as BuzzFeed reported, have reclaimed and legitimized their idolization, taking charge of a conversation that often deemed these celebrities and their fans unserious.
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I just don't get Snapchat so I think I'm inclined not to like it, but I think that our idolatry of youth and innovators has gone haywire here, and we have basically created an entity that is irresponsible to invest in.
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Still, Sanders has shown a respect and fondness for the unconventional Christian leader, saying recently in a rally that he is "a very great fan" of the Pope and his messages, namely the need to pay attention to the dispossessed and the idolatry of money.
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Yet Shakespeare is aligning a French Catholic with the false prophecy and "idolatry" of Islam (an existent myth at the time was Muhammad formed part of a trinity with Apollo); it is a clear example of Shakespeare manipulating sectarian divisions for a Protestant audience.
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George serves on the program's advisory board, and last fall joined Saunders at an inaugural event for the center, where he argued that human rights "inflation" and an "idolatry of desire" had led people to couch ideological agendas in the rhetoric of human rights.
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Wahhabism, the ultra-conservative branch of Islam that emerged in Saudi Arabia some 250 years ago, regards the veneration of objects, especially those predating the Prophet Mohammed's life in the 7th century, as tantamount to idolatry, and has advocated their neglect or outright destruction.
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He networked with local militia groups, talked about plans to create a 51st state called Liberty and distributed to his closest followers a "Biblical Basis for War" document that calls for the "surrender" of those who favor abortion rights, same-sex marriage, "idolatry" and communism.
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Yet his statement also opens up another possibility, more remote perhaps, that the artworks are genuine attempts to transcend not only "idolatry," but irony and cynicism as well, modes that have come to dominate the modern, secular world in which Strau operates as an artist.
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"Popstar" reverses the idolatry, which is hilarious on its face and also a gesture in the direction of some of the cultural taboos and conundrums that stretch back through the history of American popular music from Eminem to Elvis Presley to the arrival of the banjo.
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Mounting a prosthetic eye with a working webcam onto his levitating pyramid, Bell's Ascension channels the mysticism and mystery surrounding the "All-Seeing Eye" on the back of the dollar bill and relates it to modern idolatry and the surveillance state—and looks awesome doing it.
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While this version is impressively performed and manages to revive the dated source material for 2018, it is still riddled with its predecessors' flaws: an old-school storyline that relies too heavily on celebrity idolatry and female emotional labor, plus pacing that unravels in the second act.
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Their idolatry begins shifting in prison when they meet Karlene Faith (the empathetic Merritt Wever), a graduate student who cracks open the door to their consciousness — and, by extension, their autonomous selves — by asking something that hasn't been asked in a while: What do you think?
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Rabbi Weiss reiterated the commandment that children must be removed from danger, and Rabbi Sternbuch cited the principle of pikuach nefesh, which holds that, to save a life or prevent permanent organ damage, any transgression against Jewish law other than idolatry, incest or murder is permitted.
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In fact, Adrianne Wadewitz, a feminist scholar of 18th-century literature, set Wikipedia straight on this point over a decade ago, when she identified the first fandom subculture as the Janeites, the network of Jane Austen stans who found their prime directive, Austen idolatry, around 1870.
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Throughout the 1980s and onwards, the paleo-conservative faction (made up of writers like Patrick Buchanan and Samuel T. Francis) dismissed democracy promotion as idolatry and called for a return to the Old Right view that foreign policy should be about promoting national interests rather than abstract ideals.
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Veneration can be a stop on the road to contempt, and De Quincey, who had so much of his self-esteem invested in his idolatry of Wordsworth, behaved around the poet like a man who, in being let down by his hero, had been confronted with his own insufficiencies.
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Jerry Falwell Jr. shy away from it — even to the point of contorting themselves to defend Mr. Trump's unconscionable response to white-nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Va. Idolatry of class, nation, race and leader is a constant temptation for people of faith, and too many are succumbing to it today.
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It's a trend that's coincided with the rise of queer narratives being told in movies and on TV. (In 103, GLAAD reported a record-breaking number of LGBTQ characters on scripted broadcast and streaming shows.) Which is to say, in the 210st century, Weisz's trajectory to lesbian idolatry is far from unique.
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A psychological thriller about an up-and-coming Wall Street executive (Dane DeHaan) who questions his sanity while trapped in that mysterious sanitarium, A Cure for Wellness is fascinated by the destructive nature of the American work ethic, and how its idolatry has left us susceptible to gaslighting and far, far worse.
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In the January edition of an IS online magazine, a figure purporting to be a high level official in the Sinai affiliate of the group vowed to target Sufis, accusing them of idolatry and heretical "innovation" in religion and warning that the group will "not permit (their) presence" in Sinai or Egypt.
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Competition's been a great thing for young people; it's been a great thing for people of color and women, because basically we've broken the cartel and the monopoly of old white guys, but in certain instances we've swung so far to the idolatry of youth and innovators that I think we mistake youth for vision.
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How we got here — featurizing Network effects, cheap capital, idolatry of innovators, and a feckless DOJ/FTC have resulted in a monopoly era where a wildly profitable business (phones, digital marketing, loyalty programs, cloud, Yoda dolls) can generate such staggering value ("antimatter") that entire industries become loss leaders ("features") to differentiate and protect the antimatter.
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Gerrymandering, money in politics, lack of a shared experience among Americans, social-media-fueled rage, and an idolatry of innovators have led to a faustian bargain: The innovators (lords) capture the majority of the gains, and the 1603% (serfs) get an awesome phone, a $4,000 TV, great original scripted television, and Mandalorian action figures delivered within 24 hours.
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The bust is depicted face down in the 1628 Martyrdom, and its caption, in one neat sentence, summarizes both its art historical and spiritual/philosophical significance: "By placing this fragment face down, Ribera not only suggests his own rejection of Classical ideals in favor of naturalistic painting, but also evokes the blindness of idolatry versus the heavenly light of God to which Bartholomew turns his gaze".
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This occurred to me while I was rereading Gibbon's Decline and Fall, as one does, and in particular its depictions of the early days of the Christian faith: But whatever difference of opinion might subsist between the Orthodox [church], the Ebionites, and the Gnostics, concerning the divinity or the obligation of the Mosaic law, they were all equally animated by the same exclusive zeal; and by the same abhorrence for idolatry ..,.
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Much of Pope Francis' economic language, which attacks the inequalities of global capitalism and "the idolatry of money," comes from his experience as a priest in Argentina, a country that has for decades lived in economic crisis, declaring in 2001 what was then the largest debt default in history ($82 billion) and getting the biggest rescue package ever by a country from the I.M.F. in 2018 ($57 billion).
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" And this idolatry of innovation was not confined to Silicon Valley; it migrated to the heart of the surveillance state in the person of Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency, a proud "geek" who enlisted a Hollywood set designer to build a command post modeled on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, "complete with chrome panels, computer stations, a huge TV monitor on the forward wall, and doors that made a 'whoosh' sound when they slid open and closed.
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