Timeline for Is insincere idolatry permitted?
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| Dec 25, 2022 at 19:16 | comment | added | user19234 | @kouty One wonders if idolatry based on love or fear is the equivalent of the insincere idolatry of tradition. If they are equivalent on further wonders why the Talmud never connected the love and fear question with the dictum of Johanan bar Nappaha dictum. | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 0:41 | comment | added | user19234 | @Fred How is it possible to divorce the act from the actor? If an act is idolatry, the actor must be an idolator otherwise we would be in an absurd circumstance of an act with no agent. | |
| Dec 23, 2022 at 6:43 | comment | added | kouty | מאהבה ומיראה מחלוקת אביי ורבא | |
| Dec 23, 2022 at 3:30 | answer | added | Maurice Mizrahi | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 23, 2022 at 0:23 | comment | added | user19234 | Surely an act of worship is either idolatry or not idolatry and there is no room for middle ground? | |
| Dec 22, 2022 at 21:32 | comment | added | Fred | You seem to be conflating two different things: 1) whether or not people who worship idolatry merely because they were raised to do so (and whose worship is therefore less devout and more by habit, see Rashi and Tosafos) have the status of idolators in certain regards, and 2) whether or not the idolatrous actions they do are permitted. | |
| Dec 22, 2022 at 21:28 | comment | added | Rabbi Kaii | Good question. It would still likely be forbidden because of Chukat Goyim. | |
| Dec 22, 2022 at 21:10 | history | asked | user19234 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |