I often wonder how anti-Catholics travel when they travel to Europe. Do they avoid Notre Dame Cathedral or St. Marks in Venice? Avoid all the Italian art museums because they may see a beautiful representation of Christ? Several months ago I was on a Catholic thread where someone actually thought the Sistine Chapel was sinful. These folks are out of their tree!
It has its roots in colorlessness and humorlessness of the iconoclasm of Calvin where religious art was considered as an evil or at the least an extravagance. They did not see it as being a form of worship or as a time tested means of communicating the Word of God. They saw any non-written means of teaching the Word of God, even to illiterate persons, as a threat to their form of Sola Scriptura exegesis. They need education, forgiveness and prayer, not ridicule or condemnation.
Thank Thomas Aquinas.