The essence of what the prophets call "idolatry"
is not that man worships many gods instead of only one.
It is that the idols are the work of man's own hands --
they are things,
and man bows down and worships things
worships that which he has created himself.
In doing so he transforms himself into a thing.
He transfers to the things of his creation the attributes of his own life
and instead of experiencing himself as the creating person
he is in touch with himself only by the worship of the idol.
He has become estranged from his own life forces
from the wealth of his own potentialties and is in touch with himself
only in the indirect way of submission to life frozen in the idols.
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