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idolatrous

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1. idolatrous - Adjective

2. idolatrous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices.

Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The biblical view is not just apolitical but antipolitical in the sense that it refuses to confer any value on political power, or in the sense that it regards political power as idolatrous. Jacques Ellul

We warned that WBC has had lots of experience with Ireland's militant sodomite citizenry, steeped for many decades in ignorant, blind idolatrous Catholicism, belching out their vile fagspeak, slander and blasphemy against God and His word. Fred Phelps

Only the idolatrous and the weak have need of illusion as of a remedy. Henri Barbusse

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have. Orson Pratt

...He was averse from shedding human blood, though he destroyed many idolatrous temples, and erected mosques in their stead. He held conversation neither with Nazarenes nor with bramins; nor would he permit them to hold civil offices under his government. Firishta

Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity. Miroslav Volf

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