Hos 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
Catholics do kiss their trinkets don’t they?
“Hos 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.”
I’m not Catholic, but this is a stretch. To criticize a belief, based upon the creating of statues and “trinkets”, is to view the practice in a very narrow light.
The use of statues is a form of reverent respect and acknowledgement of something or someone greater then themselves. Its not worship of that object, but what it represents, as is the cross. Which denomination does not respect that image?
Then maybe the cherubim on the Ark of Covenant and the images inside of Solomon’s Temple were idols too using your definition.