"Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them."
In between these two verses the idols are described with mouths that don't speak, eyes that don't see, ears that don't hear, noses that don't smell, hands that don't feel, feet that don't walk, and they don't speak through their throat.
I think the key is what happens to the person with the idols, they become like them, dead to all anything that is real. Which made me think of Elder Bednar 2009 BYU-Idaho talk "Things as They Really Are", and later printed in the June 2010 Ensign.
He gives an apostolic voice of warning, with much pleading and concern on a subject with immediate and eternal implications. He exposes the tactics of the adversary in our day. This statement really struck me.
"If the adversary cannot entice us to misuse our physical bodies, then one of his most potent tactics is to beguile you and me as embodied spirits to disconnect gradually and physically from things as they really are. In essence, he encourages us to think and act as if we were in our premortal, unembodied state. And, if we let him, he can cunningly employ some aspects of modern technology to accomplish his purposes."
Day 1168
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