Sentence examples for a false idol of from inspiring English sources

We can make a false idol of causality.

He means, in effect: "Secularists have made a false idol of the earth, whereas God is the only true object of worship".

Niantic is probably one of the most revenue-heavy startups dabbling in phone AR, even if it is a bit of a false idol for the industry.

But the U.S. flag becoming a sort of fetish object, a false idol, as a Christian friend of mine puts it, is not good either.

HuffPost: As a Catholic man that teaches Sunday School, isn't this sort of a false idol?

So when we treat them like the center of the universe, we create a false idol, turning a good into an ultimate.

As he saw it, our invasion of Iraq was a God-ordained mission against a false idol.

Redemption turns out to be a false idol.

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"Eye of the Tiger," if it can be said to be about anything, is about the pursuit of glory (the song mentions it twice) — though it is not clear on whether glory is a good thing or a false idol.

2. Apple's trillion-dollar market cap was always a false idol.