[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I can’t make sense of those rules, whoever they belong to.

It seems to me that if an image or statue, book or t-shirt, postcard or travel mug, leads me to prayer, and closer to God, then it can’t be intrinsically evil.

Many Protestants seem to agree, since I see paintings of Jesus, travel mugs, t-shirts, key-chains, and inspirational quotations, in Protestant bookstores.

[Iscool]

It seems to me that if an image or statue, book or t-shirt, postcard or travel mug, leads me to prayer, and closer to God, then it can’t be intrinsically evil.

So when you bow before and pray to the travel mug it brings you closer to God???