no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.”2 During his work as an economist, Bob Goudzwaard also came to the conclusion that everyone “absolutizes” something. We all serve god(s), take on the image of our god(s), then build society in our (that is, in our gods’) image.3 And long before Emerson, Wallace, and Goudzwaard it was Paul, the theologian, who opened a famous letter to Rome with the insight that whether it’s the Creator or the creation,
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