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Christian theologians teach that the commandment applies in modern times and prohibits the worship of physical idols, the seeking of spiritual activity or guidance from any other source (e.g. magical, astrological, etc.), and the focus on temporal priorities such as self (food, physical pleasures), work, and money, for example. [10]
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The Catholic Church states that idolatry is consistently prohibited in the Hebrew Bible, including as one of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:3–4) and in the New Testament (for example 1 John 5:21, most significantly in the Apostolic Decree recorded in Acts 15:19–21). There is a great deal of controversy over the question of what constitutes ...
Guan Yu was deified as early as the Sui dynasty and is still popularly worshipped today among the Chinese people variedly as an indigenous Chinese deity, a dharmapala in Buddhism and a guardian deity in Taoism. He is also held in high esteem in Confucianism. In Hong Kong both police and gangsters consider him a divine object of reverence.
Praising this simplicity, the idols were described by the scholar Paul Jacobsthal as bearing "the mark of Greek humanity, shining through primitiveness and weirdness". [4] A number of similar, usually earlier, wooden idols have survived, including the Braak Bog Figures (2nd or 3rd century BC) and the Ralaghan Idol (c. 1000 BC).
By the first century CE, Jews had responded to the idolatry of non-Jews through satire and polemics. Jewish writers used the works of their own scriptures as well as the works of Greek philosophers to denounce idolatry. [4] While Judaism has never sought to impose the faith on non-Jews, it does require the elimination of idolatry from the world.