I’ve heard a lot of preachers compare the graven images and false idols of the Bible to modern idolatries. When I’ve considered my besetting sins, I’ve thought of myself bowing down before an Ashera figure or the Temple of Aphrodite or something. But right now I can’t think of a single Scriptural instance where it says the people hated their idolatries. There was an absence of conflict, apparently: they went a-whoring with their whole hearts.

With me not so, Roderigo. Maybe I am a heathen, but I am a torn heathen. I hate my vices.