>>11223984Refer to my post please, you are misunderstanding what idolatry is. The veneration of images as images is what you mean to be as "rife with idolatry and reverence for the dead"
>>11223986Secondly, the "reverence for the dead part" is due to the distinction that Jesus Christ made that those in paradise are within the unity of the church...
"3 And another angel came, and stood before the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer of the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar, which is before the throne of God.
4 And the smoke of the incense of the prayers of the saints ascended up before God from the hand of the angel." revelation 8:3
