You are a member of a cult that claims to be Christian and yet most of the major beliefs of your cult cannot be supported by the Holy Bible which was inspired by God and written by THE FIRST CHRISTIANS.
Your "holy effrontery" attempted cheapshot pretty well describes cathlolicism. As a test, why don't you show me where in the New Testament Jesus or the Apostles taught anyone to "venerate" an image?
EXODUS 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:
EXODUS 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;
2132. "The Christian veneration of images is not contrary to the first commandment which proscribes idols. Indeed, 'the honor rendered to an imagees to its prototype,' and 'whoever venerates an imagerates the person portrayed in it.'The honor paid to sacred images is a 'respectful veneration,' not the adorationod alone: Religious worship is not directed to images in themselves, considered as mere things, but under their distinctive aspect as images leading us on to God incarnate. The movement toward the image not terminate in it as image tends toward that whose images.