Our worship and our idolatry are always acts of surrender, writes Peter Leithart on our tendency to yield ourselves to our technology: “Idolaters of technology don’t literally consider their technologies to be divine. But many do ‘lower’ themselves before their technologies. Instead of wisely using the products of their labor and ingenuity, they ‘bow’ until the latest gimmick is ruling their lives—determining how they use their time, how they spend their money, their interests and values.”16 Submission to a created thing, such as a smartphone, is idolatry when that created tool or device
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