Simon Greenleaf Quotes

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

People should never worship images. The spread of mental darkness is due to the prevalence of idolatry.

Banish afar the foul worship of idols. On their alters let the blood of animals smoke no more, nor the soothsayer look for omens in warm entrails, nor the meaningless augur attend to the song of birds. Let all the images of the gods be smashed to the ground.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.

A woman playing God in a passion play is tantamount to paganism.

We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

Wheresoever thou findest a high mountain or a lofty hill and a green tree, know that an idol is there!

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

The churches are ruined and fallen down to the ground in all parts of the kingdom. There is no divine service, no christening of children, no receiving of the sacrament, no Christian meeting or assembly, not once a year; in a word, no more demonstration of religion than among the Tartars or cannibals.

Verily, Polytheists are unclean.

Gaming is among the surest means to debauch a people, and draw them from God and his worship to superstition and idolatry.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.

Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.

Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.

Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.