“You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of
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In both the Jewish and Christian worldviews, idolatry is the overarching “meta-sin” (to use Simon Gathercole’s expression) underneath all other secondary acts and expressions of human evil. The 2nd temple Jewish text Wisdom of Solomon puts it like this: “In return for their [i.e. the Gentiles’] foolish and wicked thoughts, which led them astray to
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