Yeah, the idolatry... So much idolatry. Its more than the statues for the Catholics and the bad art of the Orthodox - giving authority to {anything} is idolatry. 

When it comes to teaching, the big unsaid question is - how do you evoke the knife's edge of rationality, such that it leads to faith?

And I always point out that faith isn't belief. Those two words lead in different directions.