[Dr. Eckleburg]

Basil and Aquinas were wrong. It's a pathetic deflection to say "we're not really praying to the image or the statue, but to the person behind those images and statues."

God knows the dishonesty in men's hearts and their natural leaning toward superstition and idolatry. Therefore the RCC's blasphemy is twofold. They bow down to images and they pray to dead people, not to God alone. Images and dead men become idols.

God alone hears and answers men's prayers. He alone is worthy to receive our prayers. The second commandment reveals Rome's error.

This is so basic that it just goes to show how blinded RCs have become.

"Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God"

God isn't saying never to paint a picture. He's saying not to bow down to the picture or worship the picture it as if it or the person represented in the picture were God.

It's not.

It's pagan. You don't need it.

[Natural Law]

"Basil and Aquinas were wrong."

Another in a long line of worthless opinions.

[D-fendr]

Let's try this again:

God knows the dishonesty in men's hearts and their natural leaning toward superstition and idolatry.

But we don't, except for our own. We can, however, project our own fear and weakness onto others.