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[lurkingdirk]

They sure did.


The Roman Catholic "Church" takes away one of God's Ten Commandments Link

That link is a misreading of what the contemporary church believes on icons. They're treating the Roman Catholic church (why put it in quotes? Even you can't deny that the organisation is, in fact, by every definition of the word a church,) as though it was still acting as it was in 1600. They aren't, and they embrace all 10 commandments.

In the book of Numbers, God commanded Moses to make a bronze icon, that everyone might look at it and be saved from death. In Colossians, Christ is called "the image of the unseen God." Further,

According to John of Damascus, anyone who tries to destroy icons "is the enemy of Christ, the Holy Mother of God and the saints, and is the defender of the Devil and his demons." This is because the theology behind icons is closely tied to the Incarnational theology of the humanity and divinity of Jesus, so that attacks on icons typically have the effect of undermining or attacking the Incarnation of Jesus himself as elucidated in the Ecumenical Councils.

And, the origin of icons in the Western Church was bolstered by the concept of needing to teach the uneducated - you love uneducated people, as you are one, and you consistently mock those who have college degrees.

Following Gregory the Great, Catholics emphasize the role of images as the Biblia Pauperum, the "Bible of the Poor," from which those who could not read could nonetheless learn. This view of images as educational is shared by most Protestants.

So, as you see, it isn't just the Roman Catholic Church, it is the only church that embraces the idea of icons. You have an antiquated, incorrect, and uneducated view of icons. While that doesn't surprise me, it is quite dumb.

http://www.ikonograph.com/about_icons.html

 

[Will E Worm]

All wrong again. :tongue: You never get tired of trolling and being wrong.