Modern IDOLATRY

Any time we take the attributes of the gods the world around us worships and apply them to God to make him more palatable and less threatening,

more accommodating and less thunderous, we produce a graven image. We whittle down his transcendence, we paint over his sovereignty, we chisel away his omnipotence until he is a pet-like version of the terrible pagan god we would never be so foolish as to bow down to.

—Jen Wilkin