“Idolatry is a perversion of man’s innate religious sense. An idolater is someone who ‘transfers his indestructible notion of God to anything other than God’” Catechism of the Catholic Church 2114.
As a Catholic, I have been labeled an idolater because of my Biblical view on relics and statues. What people fail to realize is that the initial use of relics and statues began with God’s commandment. This is conveyed throughout the Bible, in the Old and New Testament. We will begin by reading of scripture in the Old Testament that elaborates on the uses of these God given tools in relics.
