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“In a modern context, few people worship “idols” in the sense given in Exodus…Rabbi Joseph Telushkin offers a useful insight on this [2nd] commandment:
From Judaism’s perspective, idolatry occurs when one holds any value (for instance, nationalism) higher than God. Thus, a person who, on the basis of “my country right or wrong,” performs acts that God designates as wrong is an idolater”

interesting!