Hinduism_ A Christian Heresy

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan 170
Here is a sound advice from an anonymous person on the internet:
“bit of advice to Hindus, if you do not want people to refer to you as
idolators/idol worshipers, you should yourselves never refer to your
religious images as "idols" and instead only use the words like statue,
image, or icon.”
Idolatory is not in making the idols, but in confusing the symbol with the
reality. Since any symbol can be confused with the reality and the
message it is supposed to convey, the chance of an icon becoming an
idol is very great. We see this not only in Hinduism, but also in
Christian Churches in Rome and the East as we just read. Only in India
it has become a very intricate art both in expression and in representation
and in due course the content of the message was totally lost.
The Second Council of Nicaea
The Second Council of Nicaea was the seventh ecumenical council. It
met in Nicaea in 787 AD to restore the honoring of icons or holy images,
which had been suppressed by imperial edict inside the Byzantine
Empire during the reign of Leo III (717-741) and his son Constantine V
(741-775).
Proofs were derived from Ex. 25:17 ; Num.7: 89; Heb. 9: 1 .; Ezek. 16.,
and Gen. 31. 34, and from a series of passages of the Church Fathers.