[Syncro]

To me the image of worshipping at his footstool is enough to get the meaning across. Clearly the footstool is a means of worship, not an object of worship.

Did you read the post you are responding to, especially the Biblical quote?

'The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubim; let the earth be moved.'

God is sitting between the cherubim.

It is God that was being worshiped because He was RIGHT THERE! Way cool.

There are no cherubim here, yet the icon is worshiped as if God is inside of it.

[crumudgeonous]

This picture of the pope is a picture of something that Orthodox Christians do not do.