1 . Do you shy away from eating something because of bad publicity about it? 2. Do you glance through fashion or body-building magazines and wish your body looked like the ones you see there?
How quick were your answers? How honest? No doubt you may be able to add questions of your own, but these two hint at the many examples of twentieth-century idolatry.
The chapter "Physiology" in Science and Health is a hard-hitting expose of many of the idols that men have worshiped through the ages. Mrs. Eddy asks the reader, for example, "Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?"Science and Health, p. 174.
