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Six example sentences with idolatry, each labelled with its topic.
Byzantine emperors quarreled for a century over whether painted saints in church amounted to idolatry.
History
Critics accused the collectors of idolatry, kneeling before a canvas as though the paint itself could grant favors.
Art
The reformers stripped the cathedral of gilded statues, calling such decoration idolatry dressed as devotion.
Architecture
The guide pointed to rows of empty niches whose statues were removed centuries ago during a campaign against idolatry.
Travel
The poem retells the golden calf story, in which a people melts its jewelry into a god and falls into idolatry.
Literature
The epic's grandest scene shows idolatry at the foot of the mountain, thousands of extras dancing around a golden calf.
Movies
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