Try 2 Cor 6:16-18
Also, from McClintock & Strong’s Encyclopedia of the Bible:
“...in the New Testament idolatry came to mean, not only the giving to any creature or human creation the honor or devotion which belonged to God alone, but the giving to any human desire a precedence over God’s will (1 Cor 10:14; Gal 5:20; Col 3:5; 1 Peter 4:3).”
All I am saying is that we are not required to wear, or carry, or display any particular symbol symbol or item to be considered a Christian; nor, by being forbidden to do so, do we lose our Christianity or Salvation.
When one makes a fetish of having to do so, then it raises that created object to a status of necessity, and it becomes a fetish object, or (so to speak) an amulet or magical talisman; a de facto object of worship or veneration, which is a form of idolatry.
The difference with the Sikhs or Muslims is that they literally believe that being deprived of their items deprives them of their hope of salvation, and that to take them away is literally condemning them to their version of Hell.
Ah, I misunderstood. I missed the “must.” Sorry about that.