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“The Art of Veneration: No, Catholics Don’t Worship Statues” — The Song Smashes the Idolatry Myth for Good

Every few weeks, like liturgical clockwork, someone confidently declares:

“Catholics worship statues!”
“Images are idols!”
“God hates religious art!”

And every time, the internet nods along
as if this weren’t contradicted
by the Bible
the Church
and two thousand years of Christian practice.

Here’s what the meme-culture theologians never mention:

God Himself commanded sacred images.

Moses didn’t invent the bronze serpent — God did.
Solomon didn’t freestyle cherubim, pomegranates, and carved angels — God ordered it.
Beauty wasn’t banned. Idolatry was.

And Deuteronomy 4:15?
The verse everyone misquotes?
God literally says Israel couldn’t make an image of Him because
“you saw no form.”
No form = no image.

Then the impossible happened:
God took on a form.
Jesus — the image of the invisible God.

The Incarnation didn’t just redeem humanity —
it redeemed art.

That’s why the early Church filled catacombs with frescoes,
raised mosaics that preached the Gospel,
and carved the saints into stone:
the “catechism of the illiterate,”
truth for the eyes
when the tongue couldn’t teach it yet.

Meanwhile…

You can build a forty-foot Lincoln,
carve presidents into a mountain,
or fly a giant Garfield balloon down Manhattan —
no one screams “IDOLATRY!”

But carry Mary in a procession?
Suddenly everyone’s a part-time biblical scholar with a minor in “Graven Images 101.”

Images aren’t idols.
They’re reminders.
They’re witnesses.
They’re windows into heaven
— the family photos of the Kingdom.

This track exists for one reason:
to put the “statue worship” myth in its grave once and for all.

🎶 “No, Catholics Don’t Worship Statues” — out now.
A track for Scripture nerds, history lovers, and anyone exhausted by the internet confusing art with apostasy.

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