In that day a man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel. He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands; he will not respect what his fingers have made, nor the wooden images nor the incense altars.
At least idolators in ancient times acknowledged that god was outside them, above them. They knew their own hands had carved the images, but they suspended that truth in order to fully give themselves over to the pagan ceremony.
Idolators today are really atheists at the core; there is no god outside them at all. The only gods that exist are inside them. Strangely, these modern “gods” are every bit a product of vain imaginations as were those of the pagan past.
