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Why aren't you an iconoclast?

How can anyone who believes that praying to an idol is a sin think it's ok to have statues of the virgin Mary, the saints, and of jesus to pray to? Why draw the line at these? Why not a holy horse? Or a holy bull? Heck let's just dig up some Aztec god and start praying to it aS LoNg As YoUrE pRaYiNg To GoD aNd NoT tHe IdoL my brother in Christ you are praying to a modern version of a golden bull

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marsey is an image idiot

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I have never used a marsey in my entire life

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good, you dont deserve her

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Another millennia-old heresy reemerges :#marseyfacepalm:

This issue was put to rest 1200 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Council_of_Nicaea

As the sacred and life-giving cross is everywhere set up as a symbol, so also should the images of Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, the holy angels, as well as those of the saints and other pious and holy men be embodied in the manufacture of sacred vessels, tapestries, vestments, etc., and exhibited on the walls of churches, in the homes, and in all conspicuous places, by the roadside and everywhere, to be revered by all who might see them. For the more they are contemplated, the more they move to fervent memory of their prototypes. Therefore, it is proper to accord to them a fervent and reverent veneration, not, however, the veritable adoration which, according to our faith, belongs to the Divine Being alone – for the honor accorded to the image passes over to its prototype, and whoever venerate the image venerate in it the reality of what is there represented.

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Many Protestants who follow the French reformer John Calvin generally agree in rejecting the canons of the council, which they believe promoted idolatry. He rejected the distinction between veneration (douleia, proskynesis) and adoration (latreia) as unbiblical "sophistry" and condemned even the decorative use of images.[9] In subsequent editions of the Institutes, he cited an influential Carolingian source, now ascribed to Theodulf of Orleans, which reacts negatively the council's acts. Calvin did not engage the apologetic arguments of John of Damascus or Theodore the Studite, apparently because he was unaware of them.

First of all, C*lvin is wrong about basically everything and if you're a C*lvinist you should be ashamed.

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Neighbor, I ain't no icon. I'm for real. Flesh and blood!

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