[MarkBsnr]

When one constructs one's own god in one's own image and keeps it on the hall stand to its head for luck when they walk by, the only thing required is whim.

Or on the lawn.....

Or the car dashboard....

Agreed. It's a good thing that we Catholics stay to the God of Scripture and the Church. St. Luke paved the way for the construction of icons. We follow his example.

[metmom]

Exodus 20:[1] And the Lord spoke all these words: [2] I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. [3] Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. [4] Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. [5] Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me: