An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.
Nancy PearceyThe human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
Nancy PearceyModern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
Nancy Pearcey