'An idol is something within creation that is inflated to function as a substitute for God. All sorts of things are potential idols, depending only on our attitudes and actions toward them. If this is so, how do we determine whne something is becoming or has become an idol?
Idolatry may not involve explicit denials of God's exiistence or character. It may well come in the form of an overattachment to something that is, itself, perfectly good. The crucial warning is this: As soon as our loyalty to anything leads us to disobey God, we are in danger of making it an idol.'
Dick Keyes, 'The Idol Factory' in Os Guinness & John Seel, No God but God, p.32.
