Introduction To Christianity - pg. 73

If one can say that hunger, love and power are the forces which motivate man, then one can point out, as an extension of the observation, that the three main forms of polytheism are the worship of bread, the worship of love and the idolization of power. All three paths are aberrations; they make absolutes out of what is not in itself the absolute and thereby makes slaves of men. They are also, it is true, aberrations in which something is sensed of the power that bears up the universe. Israel's confession is, as we have said, a declaration of war on this triple worship and thus an event of the greatest importance in the history of man's liberation.