I'm goona make some more posts but I'd like to make my point first
How Endurance do you respond to this Nu 21:8 -And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live.
Also Catholics have a very good theological reason for having images of things in our churches one that I believe is best summed up by Vladimir Soloviev in his book The Russian Church and the Papacy
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ in the flesh has proved that bodily existence is not excluded form the union of the human and divine and that the external and sensible objectivity can and must become the really instruments and visible image of the divine power. Hence the cult of the Holy Image and relics, hence the legitimate belief in the miracles wrought by the sacred objects. Thus in declaring war on these images the Byzantine emperors were not attacking the religious custom or the mere detail of worship so much as a necessary and infinitely important application of Christian truth itself To claim that divinity can't be sensibly expressed or externally manifested or that divine power cannot employ visible or symbolic means of action is to rob the divine Incarnation of all it's reality it was more than a compromise it was the suppression of Christianity. All grammatical errors including the complete lack of commas is my fault
Also Endurance do you take this to the full extent saying that all images depicting anything are bad because we can't do it perfectly. because I find it hard to stay in the middle on the subject either all images are bad or only those that are worshiped are but either way. Anyway I got to go right now but I’ll respond to specific posts when I get back.