Should I burn Grandma's photo?
Should I burn Grandma's photo?
This thread should bring out all the right thinking Christians to tell us how evil the Church is.
Nice attempt to muddy the waters, but you really are comparing apples to oranges. Not surprising, though.
If you would have bothered to look at all of the quotes(and there are others), you would see that the early church fathers (including Tertullian) had no problem with art in and of itself. This agrees with those who lived in the Apostolic Age.
What they had a problem was, was giving reverence to art and images, or what the art and images represented.