Do Catholics Worship IDOLS?? (No Catholics don't worship Statues!)

Do Catholics Worship IDOLS?? No! Catholics do not worship statues or idols. This video gives the Catholic teaching on statues and helps non-Catholics to understand our Catholic beliefs on this subject.

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[josh]

Brought my first icon. It's of St Irenaeus of Lyons

[quindariousgooch]

If we worshipped idols for 1, 500 years until martin luther said "nuh uh heres what i think the bible says", like the prots like to argue, then all of the early Christians and Church Fathers and Saints would be damned... Good thing that we dont!

[randycarson]

*PROTESTANT SHOCK: BILLY GRAHAM STATUE INSTALLED IN US CAPITOL BUILDING*
_Crowd gathers to honor and praise the man._

Just because two things look similar, it does not mean they are the same. Worshiping an idol is very different from using a statue to remind you of someone. The recent installation of a statue of Billy Graham in the US Capitol building illustrates this point: no non-Catholic Christian is worshiping that statue, and no Catholic is worshiping a statue of St. Francis or Mary, either.

Furthermore, despite external appearances, we know Exodus 20 is not a prohibition against making “any likeness of anything” in a strict sense because we clearly see God either commanding or praising the making of images and statues in multiple biblical texts (see Exodus 25:18; Numbers 21:8-9; I Kings 6:23-28, 9:3).

PS: U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, said “I hope when members of Congress walk by his statue, they reflect on the standards of faith, ethics and decency that he exemplified throughout his extraordinary life.”

Gee, that sounds pretty Catholic to me.

[TheDisciple]

When I heard a Protestant say that they are against the carving of Jesus on a cross because of Exodus, I just knew that he was wrong of that interpretation. I cannot wait, if God only wills, to be a catholic.

[dave_ecclectic]

These people don't realize the hypocrites they have become.
They accuse Catholics of creating images and there they sit looking into a computer screen.
Popping out the largest idol of today, the cell phone.

[sandstorm]

Even though I was raised Protestant, the arguement that statues are idol worship is new to me and...extremely bizarre. We know statues are not God. We know it's not literally him. It merely *represents* him and gives us something physical to focus on, ground us in the moment. We are material beings (as per God's design), and having material means of worship is really helpful for us.

Moreover, God COMMANDED that the Ark of the Covenant have STATUES of angels put on it. Of angels! Is God commanding idolatry?? Surely not.

As well, don't Protestants have pictures of Martin Luther and other Reformation leaders? Do they have photographs of their families??? To be logically consistant, they would have to get rid of all of those.

[BeanBYTESOF]

I have a Crucifix right next to my bed remind to do the right thing, it also makes me feel not alone, sometimes I point it forward me if I feel scared. If I have nothing to do I will talk to Jesus if I see the crucifix.

[reneestaniel]

I am a sculptor and have been accused of working for the devil.

[irishandscottish]

Thing is - an empty cross doesn’t show Christ has risen.
Scripture is clear Christ was removed from the cross and placed in the sepulchre.

It is an empty tomb with burial cloths that is the proof of Christ risen.
So it always confuses me when Protestants point to the empty cross as proof Christ risen when the Bible clearly details quite a few things happened after Joseph of arimathea and Nicodemus took Christs body down from the cross

[Church]

Prodys love to use Catholic images for their you tube videos, while simultaneously telling us not to use them.

[MrAndyhdz]

I'm a former Catholic, now a Protestant but love your channel. You're doing a great job of educating Protestants (mostly Baptists) about the true teachings of the Catholic church.

[healhands]

can you enter a Holy church and find nothing but plain walls like a classroom or office?
this is also the reason why Catholic churches represent God in movies.

[simplenobodycatholic]

I have been laughed off by those other christian doctrine because of this...they lean on their own understanding to this issue...they even call me in most sarcastic way IDOL to mock my faith...but i wont take it seriously...leave it to God..because i see with my own eyes how God REALLY came to me...THE TRUTH...Jesus is real..

[OrthodoxChristianBeliever]

Protestants think we worship Icons in The Eastern Orthodox Church too. Saint John Of Damascus In The Eastern Orthodox Church Helped Clear That Up when people in his day were scraping the paint off The Icons and used it in Baptisms And The Eucharist. He said, "No, the paint has no magic powers."

[gabrielfrund]

Some peoples i know went to Nepal, India and Srilanka and seen similar featurs of worship with Hinduism and Buddhism in Catholism and Orthodoxy

[theurzamachine]

I'm going to try out a new strategy by telling people that no, we don't worship statues but we worship a piece of bread during the Mass to steer the conversation towards the Eucharist. Any suggestions or thoughts on this method?

[teresaemmerth]

I have a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe that I store in the back of my van. If I thought that this object was divine I certainly would not have it in my van. I would be upset if it got broke because I like the statue and I use it at events.
It is just resin and paint.

[johnchrysostom]

In the Philippines, we call the iconoclasts as "Exodus Warriors".

[freddyfaria]

Its so sad that people hate catholic Church 😢. Everything in catholic Church is biblical if u understand properly

[rhwinner]

When my friend's Mom got divorced she threw out all the pictures of her ex-husband "because they reminded me of him." Likewise, when the protestors got divorced from the Church, they threw out all the pictures of the Saints, of Mary and even in some cases of Jesus because they reminded them of a family they were a part of but were no longer.