does your crucifix talk to you? do you literally worship it as god himself? then it's not an idol.  you come off as one of the protestants that bases his entire argument on pretending he's too challenged to understand the difference between meditating (no, not that kind, you know exactly what i mean) on an image and venerating what it represents and actively worshiping it. to the pagans these were no different. as far as they were concerned their icons were their gods because they spoke through them and said things like "throw your baby in a furnace for me lol xd"
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