Synonyms for idolatry
aɪˈdɒl ə triidol·a·t·ry

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1. idolatrynoun

   Synonyms:
   adoration, worship, reverence

2. idolatrynoun

   The worship of idols.

   Synonyms:
   worship, reverence, adoration

3. idolatrynoun

   The admiration of somebody or something.

   Synonyms:
   adoration, reverence, worship

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1. idolatry, devotion, veneration, cultismnoun

   religious zeal; the willingness to serve God

   Synonyms:
   fear, devotion, reverence, devotedness, idol worship, veneration, cultism, awe

2. idolatry, idol worshipnoun

   the worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God

   Synonyms:
   veneration, cultism, devotion, idol worship

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1. idolatrynoun

   Synonyms:
   worship of idols

2. idolatrynoun

   Synonyms:
   excessive love, excessive veneration

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1. Clive Staples Lewis:

   The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on the service itself and thinking about worship is a different thing than worshipping ... 'Tis mad idolatry that makes the service greater than the god.

2. Robert Jeffress:

   In suggesting that God is ‘queer’ Swarthmore College is guilty of nothing short of modern day idolatry, when you read the Bible you will discover that God reserved His harshest condemnation for individuals and nations that practiced idolatry – creating an imaginary god who conformed to a culture’s immorality.

3. Pope Francis:

   The Gospel does not condemn the wealthy, but the idolatry of wealth, the idolatry that makes people indifferent to the call of the poor.

4. Gilbert Chesterton:

   Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

5. John Calvin:

   The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.