[CynicalBear]

>> What makes an idol an idol?<<

Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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.

And you think that God commanded the brazen serpent which was a “graven image” but let’s see what happened to that.

2Kings 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?

[narses]

So you have no pictures of loved ones?

[D-fendr]

As for Colossians 3:5, I think you're confusing a statute or art with humans (members). I don't think even you believe Catholics fornicate with art.

As for "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.":

Are you saying a statue of fourfooted beasts or bugs is an idol? Is this an idol:

Or, according to you, is this an idol?:

[narses]

So you have no pictures of loved ones?

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