RE: The Issue of Idolatry in Abrahamic Religions
September 22, 2023 at 3:26 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2023 at 3:35 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You can use the term in that way - but fetishes are positively ancient and don't have to have anything to do with sex. The veneration of objects believed to have magical or supernatural potency.
Like magic books. The reason that abrahamism forbids idolatry, fetishes, and totems, is that they're competition for it's own idols, fetishes, and totems. Think of it like this. The big crucifixion sculptures in churches and cathedrals? Those are idols. The magic books littered all over the place? Fetishes. The crosses people wear around their necks, totems. You can probably come up with islamic analogs for each in your own experience.
Like magic books. The reason that abrahamism forbids idolatry, fetishes, and totems, is that they're competition for it's own idols, fetishes, and totems. Think of it like this. The big crucifixion sculptures in churches and cathedrals? Those are idols. The magic books littered all over the place? Fetishes. The crosses people wear around their necks, totems. You can probably come up with islamic analogs for each in your own experience.
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