Maimonides on Religion
1130–1204 Spain
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Consider in how many ways His knowledge is distinguished from ours according to all the teaching of every revealed religion.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)
After a long time the great and awful Name was forgotten and the people, men, women and children, only recognized an image of wood or stone and the temple of wood or stone which they had been brought up from infancy to serve by bowing down.
Mishneh Torah (1180)
Astrology is a sickness, not a science … It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
It is distinctly said in the Law that everything which idolaters consider as service to their gods, and a means of approaching them, is rejected and despised by God... Thus all precepts cautioning against idolatry, or against that which is connected therewith, leads to it, or is related to it, are evidently useful.
Guide for the Perplexed (1190)