As someone who studies the nature of images, statues, and icons, the tearing down of racist statues isn’t iconoclasm since they don’t represent saints and therefore the veneration involved does not pass onto #Christ. Don’t be confused about what’s at stake here. 1/2 https://t.co/dPNMSjNR9G

As someone who studies the nature of images, statues, and icons, the tearing down of racist statues isn’t iconoclasm since they don’t represent saints and therefore the veneration involved does not pass onto #Christ. Don’t be confused about what’s at stake here. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/dPNMSjNR9G

— Michael Rogers, SJ (@mrogerssj) June 11, 2020

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