How to pronounce “idola” in English

against idolatry? OK, so I totally think that religion and faith need to be coupled.

Most of us think idolatry is just about bowing down to idols or statues or the like.

They all created idolatrous regimes using the exact same tropes as pharaoh did--

So the problem of idolatry is huge.

in a prison of idolatry, but a fun prison almost, with pageantry.

So the link between idolatry and the golden rule, I think, is very tight.

and the dangers of idolatry.

But the Bible frames the concept of idolatry very carefully.

bringing it to the concept of idolatry-- that he knew a great deal about God.

And we've got a ton of idolatrous people wrapped in, quote, "monotheistic clothing."

you are bowing down to something that in the end is idolatrous because it is less

Reason is great if it's not coupled with idolatry.

But unless there is an understanding of what idolatry is, and the golden rule, as we've talked about before,

But they can easily fall in and into the idolatry.

It's just I think too many people are idolatrous.

And so the problem with even monotheistic belief with zero idolatry is that, at least as far as the evidence

He was like, millennials are obsessed with the idolatry of magnitude.

And they're not used to the way that the Bible frames the concept of idolatry.

But part of what I think faith does and what understanding what idolatry is is you need to figure out how to resist it.

It's reason without being coupled with the golden rule quickly becoming idolatry.

But anytime you decouple those, you can get idolatry.

There's monotheism, and there's idolatry.

We just did a segment with CNBC yesterday about a concept we call data idolatry.

A mentor of mine, this guy named Tom he always taught me to be where the idolatry of magnitude, which is being obsessed with changing the world,

And unfortunately, what I found is that in so many cases reason is coupled with idolatry.

Let me back up because I think the thing that most people don't get is what idolatry really is.

So they actually have a very, very subtle and deep understanding of Pharaoh as an idolator because they

But she has the strength to recognize, you need to resist idolatry.

Every single day. And we've been talking a little bit about idolatry and how we can occasionally assign excess value to things, not

OK. So obviously, the presence of idolatry-- and you know, you've talked about Harvey Weinstein and a lot of the unfortunate-- the Holocaust, et cetera.

When Massachusetts established a legal code, the first capital crime was idolatry.

And not only that, your own personal characteristics and foibles lead you to the pursuit of this office and to the pursuit of the idolatry of the self

True. One of the things, actually, you describe idolatry was-- you almost describe the inmates as being

Yeah. So I'll tell you my introduction to understanding how secular people can quickly fall into idolatry and how they can quickly set aside the golden rule.

The first half of the talk, it seems like you're suggesting that faith and belief in God is some kind of inoculation against idolatry

So again and again it seems to me, Jesus -- I think he would have thought it was idolatrous, honestly, to imagine himself as identical