[Iscool]

It seems to me that if an image or statue, book or t-shirt, postcard or travel mug, leads me to prayer, and closer to God, then it can’t be intrinsically evil.

So when you bow before and pray to the travel mug it brings you closer to God???

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Do you believe that Catholics or or Orthodox pray to icons? Who told you this?

Praying before an icon is no different from Protestants praying before a framed copy of “Footprints,” or praying before a painting of Jesus, or while driving, inspired by the verse on their travel mug.

Or do you consider this idol worship too?

If so, you better straighten out Christian bookstores that sell these idols.