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- noun Alternative spelling of
idolater .
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Examples
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If, indeed, we supposed every "idolator" to have received definite religious teaching, analogous to that with which we ourselves were imbued in youth, we might well find his attitude inconceivable.
Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern J. Allanson Picton 1871
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[Footnote 1: The practice originated with the Portuguese, who applied to any unconverted native of India the term _gentio_, "idolator" or
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Unless you are a genuine pagan idolator, isn't thanking the mountain and the animal just sentimental anthropomorphism?
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I recently made a idolator mad in the SCA and he vowed that he would get even.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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Anyone who clings to a fixed position on the nature of the sacred is an idolator, because Spirit, according to mystics in all traditions, has no form.
Richard Schiffman: How The Placebo Effect Proves That God Exists Richard Schiffman 2012
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Unless you are a genuine pagan idolator, isn't thanking the mountain and the animal just sentimental anthropomorphism?
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Anyone who clings to a fixed position on the nature of the sacred is an idolator, because Spirit, according to mystics in all traditions, has no form.
Richard Schiffman: How The Placebo Effect Proves That God Exists Richard Schiffman 2012
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So why was Paul not stoned as a blaspheming idolator for claiming that a crucified man was not 'merely' the Anointed One, but rather more than that?
Review of Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel James F. McGrath 2009
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"So how did Paul go into synagogues and tell Jews that their God was a recently executed criminal that they should all worship, without being stoned to death in the first 20 minutes as a blaspheming idolator?"
Review of Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel James F. McGrath 2009
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So how did Paul go into synagogues and tell Jews that their God was a recently executed criminal that they should all worship, without being stoned to death in the first 20 minutes as a blaspheming idolator?
Review of Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel James F. McGrath 2009
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