Idols for Destruction Quotes

“Christian love seeks to help the person but refuses to elevate the problem by giving it ontological status and worth. It also avoids helping the weak as a means of causing harm to the strong. In this it heeds the apostle’s admonition that love “does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right” (1 Cor. 13:6).”
― Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture

“In a society in which idolatry runs rampant, a church that is not iconoclastic is a travesty. If it is not against the idols it is with them.”
― Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture

“Big business often is said to be the enemy of government, but that is highly misleading. The robber barons were robbers because they bought off legislatures in order to further their economic interests at the expense of competitors and customers.”
― Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture

“Whatever rationale is used to justify expanding the role of the state in economic life, the inescapable outcome will be the increase of coercion. Legal”
― Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture