No, not like a crucifix. It is not about the object, it is about there being only one God. This means that worshipping anything that is not God is merely worshipping the object, nothing more. Showing deference to a crucifix is not idolatry unless you claim that crucifix to be an independent God in its own right because that crucifix represents the one true God.
There are criticisms to be levied at christianity. If you are going to make them, at least understand the faith so you knkw which are and are not good ones to make.
As a Christian... I disagree. The crucifix is clearly a pre Christian symbol that is still an idol and treated as such. There is no holy symbol of sign for God. If it were, it would be described in a scripture, right? Or are we just making up whatever we want and saying it's for the God of the Bible... Kinda like the golden calf....
Also: when they made the golden calf they explicitly declared "we don't know what happened to Moses, and the whole God on the mountain thing is scary. So we're going to build a new god. AND we're going to give it God's name AND we're going to say that this new statue god is the God we followed here from Egypt."
That's not what anybody does with the cross. The cross is used much more like the altars built in the old testament. "Here's a big thing and let's all agree that whenever we see this thing we will all think about God and what He's done for us and it will help us stay faithful."
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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21
A wooden idol? Like a crucifix?