Iconolatry
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Iconolatry is the veneration of images (mainly in two-dimensional form) and the term is often referred to in relation to the period of Byzantine iconoclasm where there was a "cleansing" and destruction by the Byzantine Empire (with varying degrees of cooperation and opposition from the Church) of all religious art. One reason given for this were that the Christians would venerate images of saints, the Son of God and even pictures of God and scrape parts of the icons into Holy Communion.
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