“Temples have their sacred images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind; but in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.”[i]
—Jonathan Edwards, eighteenth-century Protestant theologian
[i] Jonathan Edwards, Freedom of the Will, Part II, sec. 9, (1754; reprint, CreateSpace, 2013), 52.