The Reckless Mind: Loving Wisdom Too Much
Idolatry, Tyrannophilia, Radical Politics
The Jewish term for idolatry is avodah zarah, which means strange worship. One can commit avodah zarah by worshipping alien or false gods, but one can also commit it by worshipping the one, true God in the wrong manner. Idolatry, in other words, can be the right worship of the wrong object, or the wrong worship of the right object. Both might be ways of…
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