self-contradictions manifest, it has generated pathologies that are at once deformations of its claims yet realizations of liberal ideology.”1 When someone fashions a god out of something the one true God has created, there are repercussions both for the idolatrous faith and for the believer in that faith. Usually this comes in the form of a series of dialectically related polarities between which believers are forced to choose. These are, as it were, the dogmas of the faith that become elements