LOL...you must have missed the thread a few weeks back where this was argued into the ground. I happen to agree with you, and presented some of the very same arguments you did as well as a few others :-)
Some people fail to understand that printing the letters "G-O-D" is merely arranging a few million ink molecules on paper into a visual symbol to communicate a larger concept. They take great umbrage however, when a few million paint molecules are arranged on canvas for the same purpose :-)
I take the position in the debate that the people against the use of pictoral material in the teaching of religion are in a conspiracy with the Chinese Communist party to force the Chinese people into using Pin Yin ~ (a latin alphabet type of sound/character system).
Only then will these people allow the Chinese the use of the Bible or to follow Christianity.