I’m not sure of your exact argument, but it seems to me, and correct me if I’m wrong, you are trying to equate early worship of statues and trinkets dedicated to Diana on the same scale as Christians decorating their churches with icons and statues of Christ or Saints.
There is a large gulf of difference here. we as humans use our gifts as artists and sculptures in a reverent and humble way to show respect as best we can. We have built magnificent churches in honor of God. The one true god we believe in. Again this is not an exercise in idolatry but an expression of love and respect rendered and expressed by human hands.
That’s exactly what I am saying.
Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
If Catholics would not destroy those objects for fear of reprisal or lack of protection they are indeed idols and have replaced Gods protection.
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Any of those “icons and statues” supposed to represent God that are in “an image made like to the corruptible man”?
And you think that God commanded the brazen serpent which was a “graven image” but let’s see what happened to that.
2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Would Catholics crush the statues of Mary or any of the Saints into dust or have they become idols?
>>We have built magnificent churches in honor of God.<<
Where in scripture was anything like that advised? Or is that a “doctrine of man”?