#idolatry

[magnetothemagnificent]

when they say “Jewish people, Muslims, and Christian’s all worship the same god” is that true? can you tell me more about the god in Judaism and how it’s different or similar however? what is unique? thank u

It's not true.

According to Judaism, Jews and Muslims worship the same G-d, but Christians don't. This is why Halakhically it's okay for a Jew to pray in a Mosque if they have to, but not a Church. Muslims fall under the category of those who aren't Jewish, but are God-fearing, and as such different laws apply.

According to Jewish law, Christianity is idolatry, and thus the god they worship is an idolatrous god. Christianity isn't considered to be truly monotheistic according to Judaism. The concept of the Trinity is considered Shittuf (pseudo-idolatry), and the assertion of Jesus, a human, as divine, is considered blasphemous.

Now, this doesn't mean that as Jews we shouldn't interact with Christians (or any other idolatrous people) at all. Interfaith discussions and allyship is intergral to fighting antisemitism and other forms of bigotry. It just means that as Jews we don't consider Christians to be monotheistic and to worship the same G-d we do, and thus we don't pray in a Church and are careful not to engage with Christian iconography.

Sources:

Is Christianity considered Avoda Zarah?

Avoda Zara

Visiting a Church or a Mosque

Introduction to Masechet Avodah Zarah and 2a-5b

#jumblr #halakha #judaism #christianity #islam #interfaith relations #theology #idolatry #religion

[philosophybits]

I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise.

Friedrich Nietzsche, "Letter to Mathilde Mayer (16 July 1878)"

#philosophy #quotes #Friedrich Nietzsche #Letter to Mathilde Mayer #life #wisdom #idolatry

[faeriegirl]

Idolatry

#artists on tumblr #religious imagery #magical girl #nun #idolatry #false idol #angel #fallen angel #false god #culty monastery au #catholic guilt au??? #idk its my current obsession tgo #ocs #jon #kanna #friend's ocs #haley #nakchio's ocs #swoo's ocs #swooonamis

[maleyanderecafe]

Hello! I just wanted to ask if you know what happened to this VN because when I started to search for it because I wanted to finally play it after being stuck in school works, I couldn't find the vn (or any of the creator's vn...) anymore!

If anyone has news on what happened here I'd love to find out since I remember playing some of their other vns and absolutely loving them :'DDD

And... If someone has the vn... Could they share it 👉👈?

Thanks for your time! Hope you have a nice rest of your day~!

Ah, that’s @chercookue’s old game. There is a description here about what happened to both Idolatry and Bared Teeth here. Don’t worry though, the creator is still alive and kicking and supporting other yandere vn creators and games.

I actually do have a recommendation for Idolatry specifically ( I was waiting for a bit more of an update for Bared Teeth before making that recommendation, but sometimes things can happen) which I may post tomorrow. Eden let me know if you’re fine with that, if you are reading this.

Unfortunately, I don’t think I have idolatry anymore on my computer, but hopefully if I post my recommendation, you’ll get a better gist of what happens in the game.

#asks #idolatry #yandere #male yandere #yandere boy

[tomorrowusa]

Jim Wallis is an anti-racist Protestant theologian. He thinks that Trump's Bible grift is just one of the Orange One's religious issues.

Donald Trump has gone from using the Bible as a prop to turning our Holy Scriptures into a commodity. Words no longer suffice for the things he says and does with the most common word for his personal, political, and presidential behavior being unprecedented. But I have some better words—religious words. I and many other faith leaders are willing to accuse Donald Trump of two more things. The first is idolatry—false worship. The White Christian Nationalism that Trump proclaims, directly names the problem. First, the most inclusive and welcoming message of the gospel of Jesus Christ is made white by the marketer-in-chief of racial grievance. Second, the word Christian is distorted beyond recognition. Service, sacrifice, and love are replaced with control and domination with Trump’s religious disciples unapologetically aiming for control in their “Seven Mountain Strategy”—with right-wing Christians ruling government, business, media, education, family, arts/entertainment, and, of course, religion. And in direct contradiction to Jesus' instruction to his followers to make disciples in every nation, Trump’s faith will be nationalism, not just positively loving your own country, but asserting the power of one nation over others. [ ... ] The second word is heresy, which means drawing Christians and others away from Christ. Donald Trump and his MAGA movement deny the truest and deepest teaching of Jesus in places like his Sermon on the Mount. Trump’s worship of wealth and utter disregard for the poorest and most vulnerable brings the judgment of Jesus in Matthew’s gospel Chapter 25, “As you have done to the least of these you have done to me.” And the life of lies that Donald Trump has led and deliberately spread to the damage of our nation completely contradicts Jesus’ words in the Gospel of John: “You will know the truth and the truth will make you free.”

Here's the burn.

To invoke God, Mr. Trump, in the making and selling of your Bible is a very dangerous thing—not only for the soul of the nation but also for yours. You once said that you never have felt the need to ask God for forgiveness in your life. You might want to reconsider that now.

#donald trump #trump bible #eternal damnation #idolatry #heresy #jim wallis #christianity #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[nodynasty4us]

From the essay:

my American eagle avatar-ed friend ... tried to convince me that President Biden wasn’t fairly elected—and the proof is in the lack of merch.

“Nobody even likes Biden” he assured me. “I still see Trump flags and hats and tattoos everywhere around town, I don’t see Joe Biden’s face anywhere.”

And he’s not going to, but it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with adulthood. 81 million of us elected a president; we didn’t erect a golden calf.

#conservatives #donald trump #idolatry #featured

[apenitentialprayer]

It is necessary to believe that there exists a Church which is one, holy, and catholic. As regards the three Persons of the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we believe in them in such a way as to place our faith in them. But now, changing our mode of expression, we declare that we believe the holy Church and not in the holy Church. Thus, just by this difference in language, God, who is the Author of all things, is distinguished from all His creatures; and when we receive all the precious blessings which He has conferred on His Church, we attribute them to His divine goodness.

- The Catechism of Trent (1.9.23). Bolded emphasizes added.

We must not believe in anyone but God. [...] I believe the holy Church, apostolic, universal, and orthodox, which has taught us this sound doctrine. I do not believe in Her as I believe in God, but I confess that She is in God, and God is in Her, not as though She Herself contained God, but rather insofar as She is Herself contained by God.

- John of Fécamp (Confessio fidei, Chapter 26)

The Creed says: credo ecclesiam, not in ecclesiam. One cannot believe in the Church —the holy Church— as one believes in God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. According to this third article, one can believe only in God, in the Holy Spirit, and it is by knowing and confessing his work that one can believe the Holy Church exists, can believe that forgiveness of sins is granted by the Holy Spirit to man; or, as the first article declares, believe that heaven and earth were created by God the Father. The holiness of the Church, however truly it may exist and may be known by faith, is not the holiness of the Holy Spirit; it is the holiness that the Holy Spirit created and bestows upon her. The Holy Spirit separates the Church and sets her apart; he distinguishes her. He gives her a specific being and a particular law. The Church is holy because she remains a part of the created world, in which it is not possible to believe as one believes in God.

- Karl Barth (Church Dogmatics, Volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation)

The entire Church always wants to refer humbly to her Lord. She does not wish in any way, even by simple passing preterition, to make herself equal to God or substitute herself for him. By doing this the Church puts aside more firmly than ever something which can in fact be called her "permanent temptation," that of self-idolatry.

- Henri de Lubac (The Christian Faith: An Essay on the Structure of the Apostles' Creed, pages 182-182), trans. Richard Arnandez, F.S.C.

#Christianity #Catholicism #faith #catechism #Ecclesia #God #Apostles' Creed #Latin #Karl Barth #Henri de Lubac #idolatry

[islam-defined]

Allah created the sun and moon and stars all for the service of mankind not as gods for the worship by mankind

And among His signs are the night and day and the sun and the moon; do not prostrate to the sun or to the moon (they are at the service for the mankind), but prostrate to Allah who created them, if it is Him that you serve.”[41:37]

Worshiping the sun god (Muslims are asked to worship Allah, the creator of the sun)

Worshiping the moon god (Muslims are asked to worship Allah, the creator of the moon)

Worshiping the stars god (Muslims are asked to worship Allah, the creator of the stars)

"Have you not seen that to Allah prostrate all those in the skies and all those on the earth, and the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the trees, the animals and many from mankind? And there are many on whom punishment has become due. And the one whom Allah puts to disgrace, there is none to give him respect. Surely Allah does what He wills". [22:18]

#quran #islam #allahﷻ #muslim #creation of universe #universe #tumblog #sun #moon #galaxy #idolatry

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Do Not Provoke the Lord

Don’t follow other gods. Don’t serve them or worship them. Don’t make the Lord angry with the gods your own hands have made. Then he won’t harm you.’ — Jeremiah 25:6 | New International Reader's Version (NIRV) Holy Bible, New International Reader’s Version® Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. Cross References: Exodus 20:3; Deuteronomy 6:14; Deuteronomy 8:19; 2 Kings 17:35; Jeremiah 35:15; Jeremiah 44:8; Hosea 1:7

#idolatry #false gods #serve #provoke #God #God's wrath #obedience #blessings #peace #Jeremiah 25:6 #Book of Jeremiah #Old Testament #NIRV #New International Reader's Version Bible #Biblica

[ethanjhake]

These are some illustrations I did for some discipleship material my wife and parents-in-law are working on. These were made to help visualize the text in Isaiah 44:13-17 on the folly of idolatry.

The first piece is meant to illustrate the text "...He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man..." from verse 13, emphasizing that idols can only ever be less than or equal to their maker, never more—much less a god.

The second piece is meant to illustrate verses 13 through 17 as a whole, tracking two pieces of the same log as they are used for vastly different purposes. One half becomes fuel for the fire, while the other is carved into an idol.

I had a lot of fun doing this, and while these were actually only meant to be concept sketches, they turned out good enough that they just used them as is anyway lol

#isaiah #illustration #comic #bible #scripture #digital art #salt and light #idolatry #christainity

[comick]

A commission for @Vintagedolliette Who requested a drawing of Idolatry, The demon of Mass Consumerism from my comic series In The Dark, and their OC Dahlia, who is half angel/human singing him a tune. Considering Idolatry is always looking for more ways to use cuteness as a means of gaining more worshippers, I can see him probably taking notes so he can use this for the next big viral Happy Kawaii Cat plush release (now with singing action).

Idolatry (c) belongs to Crystal Gonzalez - In The Dark

Dahlia (c) belongs to Vintagedolliette - Deviantart

#idolatry #demon #inthedark #inthedarkcomics #happykawaiicat #dahlia #angel

[christian-girl-blogger]

Christians: stop watching The Chosen and open up your Bible. 🫶🏻

#stop polluting the Gospel #most of it is made up #it also violates the second commandment #it never talks about sin #christian #christianity #religion #faith #jesus christ #bible #the chosen #idolatry #tv #gospel #trad fem #traditional femininity #traditional masculinity #traditionalism #Protestant #vent post #unpopular opinion #reformed

[tabernacleheart]

There are numerous historical and sociopolitical reasons why anti-Semitism has the dark power to unite political, cultural, and religious rivals, but perhaps the deepest explanation is theological: it was the Jews who first shattered the world’s multifaceted idols, announcing the revelation that there is one living God who created and continues to sustain all existence, including human existence. This is the theological, metaphysical, and moral core of the shema, which comes from the Old Testament books of Deuteronomy and Numbers, though its core is in Deuteronomy 6:4-6: "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your might." This is the great idol-smashing declaration of the Hebrew Scriptures. And it indelibly changed history. Inter-tribal enmity has been with us since the fall, but the terms of warfare, prior to the arrival of the Jews, were stable: you get to have your gods, and we get to have ours; we may, and likely will, do everything in our power to destroy you and your gods, but we will not deny that there are multiplegods. Despite lethal disagreement over whose gods were superior, in other words, a quiet polytheistic understanding held the whole melee together, forming the battlefield upon which all tribes advanced their respective deities. But then came the Jews, announcing that there was— there is— one God, and that that God, while active in the world, is not to be found anywhere in the world. The Jews also affirmed that the whole purpose of human life was— is— to love the one God with all your being. There could be no substitutes.  This was the greatest buzzkill in history; and for that act, the act of demasking and de-divinizing every past and future idol, the twisted hearts of fallen men would never forgive the Jewish people. A devilish pact was thus made: Whatever wars we wage on each other, we will never lose sight of the common enemy: those who, by their very existence, disturb our labors to fashion and worship our own idols. We will hate each other, but we will always hate them more— and it is that hate that will unite us all.  This is the idolatry of anti-Semitism.  Modern and postmodern minds may scoff at this explanation. “We don’t believe in gods,” they may say, “and so don’t believe in idols.” But that’s just the deities’ toxic nectar talking. Of course you worship idols; you just call them “the climate,” and “social justice,” and “the nation,” and “equity,” and “autonomy,” and “getting high,” and “trans rights,” and “the market” and “safety,” and “diversity” and “inclusion,” and “war,” and “Republicans” and “Democrats,” and, above all, “ME, ME, ME.”    The Jews were the first to put a pox on all these houses, generating the initial crack in the self-induced spell that dupes us into believing, like Adam and Eve, that we have the power to fabricate our own made-to-order divinities. Same as it always was, anti-Semites of both left and right are thus not seeking freedom, liberation, or justice for themselves or anyone else. They are seeking revenge on the original truth tellers, desperately and delusionally hoping that erasing the messengers will somehow erase the message.   

Dr. Matthew Petrusek; One Hate to Unite Them All: The Idolatry of Anti-Semitism

#Dr. Matthew Petrusek #antisemitism #Idolatry

[maleyanderecafe]

Idolatry (Kinetic Novel)

Created by: APPLE SODA STUDIO

Genre: Horror

Idolatry is a very short, albeit cool game. The current game is not available as of this being posted, but the creator @chercookue did say they would put up a google doc link for those who might be interested. This is an r18 game so please be advised.

The story starts with the MC waking up after being drugged. Asel, the man who drugged them seems worried but calm, offering them pain killers and admits to have knocked them out. He states that he did it for the MC and admits to killing someone for them, though he seems pretty unconcerned with that. He seems to be okay with the MC not loving them after this, since he believes that he can love enough for the both of them. He then goes up to get painkillers for them, while the MC laments at how sweet he was before he turned into the person they saw before them.

Very short, but does give more insight into Asel. He seems to be the kind of sweet turned sour (haha get it) kind of yandere who only cares for the MC. He knows how to drug and kidnap the MC as well as the kind of person that sees other people as fodder, basically only focusing on the MC and nobody else. It is kind of interesting that Asel seems aware enough that they may not like him back after what he has done, but doesn't care since he loves the MC to bits anyways. The title Idolatry also does seem to indicate that they likely worship the MC to some degree, probably explaining why he doesn't seem to care for other people whatsoever.

Overall though as a short kinetic story, there's not much there to discuss. It's a fun story made for the O2A2 VN Jam and is rather solid. If you'd like more insight into this characters, please give it a try!

#idolatry #yandere #male yandere #yandere boy #recommendations #completed #visual novel

[zinniajones]

We continue to heap tributes upon the snake 🐍 ⚖️

#snake #judgment snake #snake cult #idolatry

[exit-babylon]

Pope Francis holding a staff representing the Gnostic kundalini shaft with the twin serpents leading up to the pineal gland (third eye) activation. This is present on the Baphomet as his phallus.

#kundalini #pope francis #idolatry