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Read is an atheist of religious temperament who has achieved the rare feat of transferring his natural reverence from God to God's creation without falling into current humanistic idolatries about man.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nuclear is to conventional war what the monotheism of the avenging God was to the old amiably human and relatively harmless idolatries of polytheism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Questioning the shibboleths of current idolatries, he moves many to think, to question and to differ.

From Time Magazine Archive

To make this fully known we will pursue some order; first, something on the origin of idolatries.

From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.

Paybody answereth,575 that nothing else is there meant, than that we must beware and separate ourselves from the communion of their sins and idolatries.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George