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Well, what was positively looney was the notion that AU has any intent other than obliterating Christianity.

But Pecel doesn't simply mean an image; King James was trying to obliterate an illiterate culture and, therefore, he flat out perpetuated a lie. Pecel is never used in any context in the bible, other than refering to idols. And that is a necessary context for what follows, "or any likeness of anything..."

Believing this means banning any image is like Tommy's response to his step-father saying, "you didn't see nothing, you didn't hear nothing, and you ain't gonna say nothing"; it's a preposterous generalization. The bible is not at all ambiguous that this is not what was meant: the Israelites are instructed to create for themselves an image of a seraphim, and to gaze apon it for healing!

How is that not idolatry? By the iconoclast concept, it plainly is idolatry. But it is not, because the seraphim are understood to be servants of God. Likewise, it was not idolatry for Abraham to bow ("shachah," elsewhere translated as "worship") to angels. The offense is obeying a second will ("diamon," from which we get the word, "demon") besides God's.