Read the history of the Church fathers and you’ll know as well.
During the reign of the emperor Constantine Copronymus , a synod was held at Constantinople , to determine the controversy. The fathers being met , to the number of three hundred and thirty , after considering the doctrine of scripture , and the opinions of the fathers, decreed, That every image, of whatsoever materials made and formed by the artist , should be cast out of the Christian chruch as a strange and abominable thing,” adding an “anathema upon all who should make images or pictures , or representations of God, or of Christ, or of the Virgin Mary , or of any of the saints”condemning it as “a vain and diabolical invention” - dposing all bishops , and subjecting the monks and laity , who should set up any of them in public or private, to all the penalties of the imerial constitution. PaulI who was at that time pope of Rome , sent his legate to Constantinople , to admonish the emperor to restore the sacred images and statues to the churches , threatening him with excommunication in case of refusal. But Copronymus treated his message with the contempt it deserved.
On the decease of Paul 1 A.D. 768 , the papal chair was filled for one year by a person of the name of Constantine , who condemned the worship of images , and was therefore tumultuously deposed ; and Stephen the IV substituted in his room , who was a furious defender of them . He immediately assembled a council in the Lateran church , where the renouwned fathers abrogated all Constantine’s decrees, deposed all the bishops that had been ordained by him , annulled all his baptisms and chrisns , and , as some historians relate , after having beat and used him with great indignity , made a fire in the church and burnt him to death, After this , they annulled all the decrees of the synod of Constantinople, ordered the restoration of statues and images , and anathematized that execrable and pernicious synod , giving this curious reason for the use of images =”That if it was lawful for emperors , and those who had deserved well of their country , to have their images erected , but no lawful to set up those of God , the condition of the immortal God would be worse than that of man.
Thus the mystery of iniquity continued to work , until at length , under the reign of Irene , the empress of Constantinople , and her son Constantine about the close of this century was convned , what is termed the seventh general council . It was helf at Nice , and the number of bishops present was about three hundred and fifty . In this vererable assembly it was decreed , “That holy images of the cross should be consecrated , and put on the sacred vessels and vestments, and upon walls and boards , in private houses , and in public ways . And especially that there should be erected images of the Lord God , our Saviour Jesus Christ , of our blessed Lady , the mother of God , of the venerable angels, and of all the saints . And that whoever should presume to think or teach otherwise , or to throw away any painted books , or the figure of the cross , or any image or picture ,or any genuine relics of the martyrs, they should , if bishops or clergymen, be deposed , orif monks or laymen be excommunicated” They then pronounced anathemas upon all who should not recieve images , or who should apply what the scriptures say against idols to the holy images , or who should call the idols , or who should wilfully communcate with those who rejected and despised them ; adding , according to custom “Long live Constantine and Irene his mother - Damnation to all heretics -damnation on the council that roared against venerable images the Holy Trinity has deposed them. One would think the council of Pandmonium would have found it difficult to carry impiety and profaneness much beyond this .
Irene and Constantine approved and ratified these decrees - the result of which was , that idols and images were erected in all the churches , and those who opposed them were treated with great severity.
History of the Christian Church by William Jones (way to old for copyright for those of you who like to attempt to get post you don’t like removed)
Yes, that looks like YOPIS in action.
See the error was made when they started to change what the Church had been teaching for centuries.