false god

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Back in Germany, though, the rise of the Nazis is what sets Bonhoeffer on his Christian resistance path, disturbed by the country’s sudden fealty to a false god stoking “rumor and rage.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

Worshipping the false god of perfection denigrates the fact that mere excellence not only exists, but also thrives, in many places and at many levels.

From Scientific American • Oct. 4, 2019

I think happiness is a false god to be worshiping.

From Time • Jan. 28, 2014

Lance Armstrong is the false god of that mistaken belief system.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2013

I should add that Bastin had retired as soon as he saw that false god appear, of which I was glad, since I felt sure that he would make a scene.

From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Haggard, Henry Rider