The idea of idolatry needs to be revived in modern culture. In Biblical times, it was golden calves and great phaoroahs. Today it is money, power, technology. His quotation from the Psalms that we become like the idols we worship is so applicable and so true.

Bob Goudzwaard is an excellent, lucid and erudite author who speaks to the heart of this matter. His captivating manner makes this book an easy, though disturbing read. It made me realize how easy it is to be co-opted by our culture that makes power and money the absolute. What is more frighteneing is that it is the subtlety by which this is done.

After condemning capitalism because it is "secular" and asking Christians to repent for the crimes of the market economy, Goudzwaard pleas for Marxism--just another "secular" option! He seems to ignore that leftist economic views rely on a deep misunderstanding of the subjective nature of cost & price (determined by the supply and demand, not by the "omniscient" state interventionism) and that they always lead to utter poverty and alienation of all freedom.