CCC 2114

Human life finds its unity in the adoration of the one God. the commandment to worship the Lord alone integrates man and saves him from an endless disintegration. Idolatry is a perversion of man's innate religious sense. An idolater is someone who "transfers his indestructible notion of God to anything other than God." Origen, Contra Celsum 2, 40: PG — Patrologia Graeca (Migne).

Read the full chapter 1. You Shall Love the Lord Your God with All Your Heart, and with All Your Soul, and with All Your Mind ¶2083–2195

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