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golden calf

noun as in materialistic goal

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From ancient myths extolling its sacred nature and promises of immortality and power to new golden calves capable of conferring overnight riches, gold, in the face of our increasingly digital world, has reached a crossroads.

From Ozy

The dimmed lights and sizeable golden calf on the center of the conference table should tip you off.

Independence may well be the modern day Golden Calf to which far too many of us bow down and worship.

But it also goes back to the Bible, commemorating, among others, the sin of the Golden Calf.

The simple and oft-denied truth is that Jews have not been a unified people since that unfortunate incident with the Golden Calf.

Father Costantino spoke in his sermon of the need to shun false idols such as the Golden Calf of scripture.

Men still sigh for the flesh pots of Egypt; still worship the golden calf.

Be that as it may, I was near as quarrelsome, and would as soon have worshipped the golden calf as saluted that rag.

How little they were in sympathy with his ideas of religion and worship was apparent from the affair of the golden calf.

The question was: "Why did the Israelites make a golden calf?"

The worship of the golden calf permits its votaries no escape.

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On this page you'll find 9 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to golden calf, such as: almighty dollar, effigy, graven image, idol, and mammon.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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