[verga]

Pay attention this time: They are not idols, we don't worship them>

[MHGinTN]

The little gif is clever, but not relevant. Try reading Numbers 21 then the passages in 2 Kings 18. Those making little snalkes on poles to hang on their house walls for eight hundred years did not believe they were using idols. That foolishness was tolerated, until God stood up a righteous king over Israel.

You might also find it instructive that it is recorded in Kings that 'in that day' (I'm not going to tell you what day that was) 'there was no king in Israel so everyman did what was right in his own eyes'. Note, there was no king, not there was no synagogue ...

[MHGinTN]

This is not aimed at the paintings. There is a huge clue to what it IS about in the following (hint:incenses):

2 kings 18:1 Now it happened that during the third year of the reign ofa Elah’s son Hoshea, king of Israel, that Ahaz’ son Hezekiah became king. 2 He was 25 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for 29 years. His mother was Zechariah’s daughter Abi. 3 He did what the LORD considered to be right, according to everything that his ancestor David had done.

Hezekiah’s Reforms (2 Chronicles 29:3; 31:1)

4 He removed the high places, demolished the sacred pillars, and tore down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had crafted, because the Israelis had been burning incense to it right up until that time. Hezekiah called it a piece of brass.

Remind you of anything done before the images of Mary or the catholic defined saints?

[WVKayaker]

Pay attention this time: They are not idols, we don't worship them>

Guess you miss Cereal Guy; eh? -LC

I still have some examples...