You could just as easily extend that same argument to the letters, "C-H-R-I-S-T". When arranged in that order, they are visual/pictorial symbols that convey a thought, a notion, an idea (as are all words). In fact, the letters used in our alphabet generally derive from pictographic symbols, and as such, your Bible is full of graven images. Whether it's ink molecules arranged on a page in certain letters and words, paint particles arranged on a canvas, or marble sculpted in a form, they are all visual symbols. By your contention, illiterate people should not be taught symbolically as the symbols mean nothing to them. Literate people on the other hand are ok to look at visual representations that convey certain ideas, but they must be arranged in letters which derive from pictorial sources, but not in actual pictures. So in your mind, graven images arr OK as long as they are letters exclusively derived from pagan pictograms that you use to represent and symbolize Christ, but any other graven images, not .45 Long Colt approved are in contradiction to God's will.
And people say the Catholic church has bizarre doctrine and rules....