Pushback: is every compulsion really idolatry?

Ben argues the article overcooks the fish by calling every unshakeable compulsion idolatry. Tim Keller's line about finding the idol's chain and Martyn Lloyd-Jones's definition — anything occupying the place that belongs to God alone — get the broad point right, he says, but worship implies intentional surrender of control to a deity, which his Kit Kat and gas-station compulsion is not. He grants that calling things sin because they fall short of God's goodness should be enough motivation to quit without relabeling them idols, and questions whether sermon rhetoric overloads concepts just to get attention.