ArchivedWhat is idolatry? :: Re: What is idolatry?Guess we should get rid of all our crosses, pictures / paintings of Jesus, and so on... Whatever decorations I wear or have, is symbolic, and in honor of Jesus. Plus I think Jesus is a cool dude. Oh, and Catholics don't worship Mary they HONOR her. Big difference. Here.... http://www.catholic.com/library/saint_worship.asp These next two paragraphs I quoted from http://www.catholic.com/library/Do_Cath ... tatues.asp Catholics use statues, paintings, and other artistic devices to recall the person or thing depicted. Just as it helps to remember one’s mother by looking at her photograph, so it helps to recall the example of the saints by looking at pictures of them. Catholics also use statues as teaching tools. In the early Church they were especially useful for the instruction of the illiterate. Many Protestants have pictures of Jesus and other Bible pictures in Sunday school for teaching children. Catholics also use statues to commemorate certain people and events, much as Protestant churches have three-dimensional nativity scenes at Christmas. If one measured Protestants by the same rule, then by using these "graven" images, they would be practicing the "idolatry" of which they accuse Catholics. But there’s no idolatry going on in these situations. God forbids the worship of images as gods, but he doesn’t ban the making of images. If he had, religious movies, videos, photographs, paintings, and all similar things would be banned. |
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