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Idolatry (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a single person gives way, once the tyrant is gone, to hatred of a hundred thousand rivals, since men now copy one another.

Idolatry (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the quintessential scandal of the Old Testament: the scapegoat made sacred as a solid object, the obstacle made divine.

Idolatry (n.) will ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be exposed by every future act of violence: the bloodstained idols of religion, politics and ideology reveal their foolish genesis.

Idolatry (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠chosen by people who cannot face freedom: with no God, king or lord to link them to the universal, they imitate another's desires because they cannot give up infinity.

Idolatry (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the neighbor is the twin of idolatry of the self: the harder we worship ourselves as individualists, the more we must worship our rivals, until worship turns to hatred.