[GonzoII]

"The Catholic Church does not believe any statue or
image has any power in and of itself."

[rwfromkansas]

Meanwhile, the feet of Peter are worn off (literally) by so many faithful kissing his statue in Rome.

[freedumb2003]

No, they don’t.

Any attempt to say so is sophistry.

Now I will go and read the article...

[rwfromkansas]

And this whole article is based on exaggeration.

No, they won’t “worship” statues.

That does not mean relying on graven images is not inappropriate.

[MNDude]

interesting article. You’ve just educated me on something I did not understand. Thank you for posting!

[circlecity]

"The beauty of statues and icons move us to the contemplation of the Word of God as he is himself or as he works in his saints."

Using the Cheribum of the temple is not an example of this at all as the Cheribum were not designed or intended for this purpose. In fact they were specifically hidden from everyone in Israel except one person who only saw them once a year.

[Blue Turtle]

More anti-catholic articles? Where are your jewish ones?

[Salvation]

Do Catholics Worship Statues?

NO!

[MeganC]

The Lord did not prohibit statues; he prohibited the adoration of them.

[BipolarBob]

I see no need for any graven image. Certainly not in any Christian Church. No, I don’t wear wedding rings or any jewelry on my person and yes I do have photographs of my loved ones.

[Buckeye McFrog]

As a Catholic I can definitively say no, we do not worship statues.

Statuary and beautiful artwork are part of our tradition, and are meant to be powerful reminders of our God, our Savior, and the many who have worked faithfully in his service through two millennia.

Relics and bones are another matter. Sadly I do no some (mostly older) Catholics who are hung-up in something resembling worship regarding those.

[Alex Murphy]

Well-meaning Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, armed with the above text, often try to use it against Catholics...

Try saying that with a mouthful of mackerel!

[Smokin' Joe]

NO.

[avenir]

Better are those who have not seen, and yet believed.—Jesus

Why not just appreciate by faith God’s word on anything? I read that Barnabus was “a good man and full of the Holy Spirit” and there is a lift in my spirit. I want what was true of him to be true of me! This sends me to Jesus, not Barnabus. And yet there’s warm affection in my heart for Barnabus as a fellow believer. He was a man who loved!

Can’t wrap my mind around wanting to build a statue of him. Seems grotesque.

[drypowder]

I am not a Catholic but was married to one. I attended Catholic Church serves with her and her family every Sunday. One thing I could never understand is why they sometimes prayed to the Virgin Marry. Reverence to the Mother of Jesus is fine but when I asked them why they pray to Her, they told me that is how they were raised in the Catholic religion. So much for the First Commandment.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Do people continue to focus on meaningless minutiae that can only divide otherwise united patriots in times of grave danger to the Republic?

Yes.

[Mad Dawg]

John of Damascus “On the Divine Images”

Nuff said.

[Tax-chick]

Yep, all the time. That cement Saint Francis in the flowerbed is a major sacrifice site. Neighbors are afraid to let their pets out.

[c-b 1]

Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

The author of the article quotes Exodus 20:4 then completely ignores the sin defined by the first four words of the verse.

[Biggirl]

Yet it is from the same Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Protestants who make the Bible a subject of WORSHIP.

[sasportas]

Good grief, its not enough that the religion forum of FR pushes a Marxist, Liberation Theology, socialist, Jesuit Pope, his Marxism totally in opposition to the political conservatism of FR, looks like the RF is now trying to make idolators out of us!

In the coming judgments of the end time, if Romanists desire to incur God's wrath for refusing to repent of their pagan-Christian idolatry -

Rev. 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

- that's one thing, that's their choice, but to try to make the rest of us FReepers idolators like themselves is quite another!