to God.19 The human problem is then to be seen in terms, not simply of moral failure, but of idolatry. If you worship anything other than the one true God, your image-bearing humanness will deconstruct, and will drag down with it all those bits of the world into which you ought to be reflecting God’s love and creative purposes but into which you will reflect instead whatever aspect of creation you have chosen as your alternative object of worship.20 Hinc Illae Lacrimae, as Terence put it.21 Idolatry