To avoid the appearance of idolatry we began each visit to Fliaan with the Lord's Prayer.
Malaysian batik often displays plants and flowers to avoid the interpretation of human and animal images as idolatry, in accordance with local Islamic doctrine.
If certain theological schools of thought have condemned the creation of images, specifically to avoid idolatry and because God is the sole creator, others have a more conciliatory reading.
Many of the images of Muhammad which date from the 1300s were intended only to be viewed privately, to avoid idolatry, says Christiane Gruber, associate professor of Islamic Art at Michigan University.
Sister Ardeth and Sister Carol chose the protest's name to convey the idolatry of nuclear weapons — the blind faith that they somehow keep us safe.
In a similar vein, Michael Murray and Kurt Meyers argue that by making the provision of certain things dependent on petitionary prayer, God helps us to avoid idolatry, which is a sense of complete self-sufficiency that fails to recognize God as the source of all good things.
"We do, and must, upon our entrance into the world, begin with idolatry to external things, and, as we advance in it, proceed to the idolatry of ourselves" (OM 2, prop. 4).
Islam forbids even respectful depictions of Muhammad, to avoid idolatry.
Time to get past the idolatry of teams and players from your youth.
The key to realist painting is the idolatry of a well-made surface.
