All 3 Uses of
idolatry
in
Man And Superman
- Give these people the most perfect political constitution and the soundest political program that benevolent omniscience can devise for them, and they will interpret it into mere fashionable folly or canting charity as infallibly as a savage converts the philosophical theology of a Scotch missionary into crude African idolatry.†
Chpt Ded.
- I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry.†
Chpt Ded.
- They never exposed their idolatry to the test of domestic familiarity; and it lasted them to their graves.†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
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(idolatry) the worship of idols (physical objects representative of gods)
or:
excessive admiration and devotion to something or someone