Idolatry comes in various forms

The anything-goes morality of the religious and political Left is matched by the sanctimonious moralism of the religious and political Right. Uncritical acceptance of any party line is an idolatrous abdication of one’s core identity as Abba’s child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses human dignity, which is often dressed in rags.—Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child, 74

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He wrote that in 1994! He could have written in 2023, couldn't he? We still face the same problems—probably because we are the same broken people who refuse to accept our father's loving, beckoning call.
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