Honoring the servant's of Christ in a church? Why they should rip all those statues out and fill the church with statues and tomb's of their secular statesman. But wait, that would be the same thing.
hehe This thread has become quite the humorous parody of the "no graven images" Bible thump that dominated earlier.
I must say though, that the underlying point still seems to be missed, and it's sad: To believe that those in Heaven are not as alive as we are now, and can hear us just as well as you or I can hear another on earth is a sad belief in my opinion. I find it comforting to believe that I can pray to an actual SAINT, and he/she will HEAR me, and not only that, but pray FOR me to God.
I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to embrace such a belief. It really helps those days when you feel you just don't have a friend in the world. And yes, God is our Friend. But it's nice to have a connection, a communion, with actual people who are NOT a supreme being, who have lived the life we have before, and have persevered.
If that's idolotry, I am guilty as charged.