No one recalls, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, "I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I fall down before a block of wood!"One block of wood, two very different uses. One part he makes a fire with, to keep warm and cook his food. The other half he carves into an idol, and asks it to help him.
The firewood is much more useful, but he can't see that. He thinks that somehow, making a carving connects him to a god, which can then aid him. He doesn't understand that there's nothing on the other end for that carving to connect to, that it's a spiritual bridge to nowhere.
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