Uhhhh.....pretty sure the bible tells us not to do that.
What about Numbers 21:8-9 where God commanded the Jewish people to make the brazen serprent. When they used it properly there was no problem, It was not until about 700 years later in the time of Hezikiah that they burned incense to it and treated it as a god. then it needed to be destroyed.
Statues are no more than reminders of people that have led lives of extraordinary faith in times of severe adversity and persevered. For most of our history very few people could read or write these statues, stations of the cross, paintings, and stained glass windows served to remind us of our history. Now we have the images of television then we used those images to tell the story to the next generation.