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Good grief, a long one. One thing is true, you(pl) have not gotten your faith from any recent Catholic; you(pl) got it from Catholic Matthew, Catholic Mark, Catholic Luke, Catholic John, Catholic Paul, Catholic James and Catholic Jude, as well as from the countless Catholic fathers of the Catholic church, of whom you can be presumed to be wholly ignorant. No one said otherwise. This is why there could be no ecumenism with Jews and Protestants other than on Catholic terms, with Crucifixes, statues and icons and the totality of the Catholic faith, with Mary's prayer and the prayer of all the saints, with Her Son offered on the Catholic altar.

It is noteworthy that there is not a single instance of Paul recommending anyone pray to crucifixes, or any other physical representation of God

Is that not a recommendation?

O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucified among you? (Galatians 3:1)

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son; that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren (Romans 8:29)
we all beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord (2 Corinthians 3:18)

So the Holy Image of Christ is something that convicts us of error; to which His elects are to be comfortable; to which we are ourselves transformed. But all that we are to accomplish without praying because one Protestant whiner or another does not feel at ease with the idea?

we preach Christ crucified
unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock
and unto the Gentiles foolishness