@JohnRyansmith1 @RorateCaeli Thanks for the interesting and helpful question. I think the reason for the image is actually the difference. Robert E Lee statues were never meant as an object of religious veneration and thus can’t properly be understood as Icon. Thus, their destruction wouldn’t be iconoclasm.

Thanks for the interesting and helpful question. I think the reason for the image is actually the difference. Robert E Lee statues were never meant as an object of religious veneration and thus can’t properly be understood as Icon. Thus, their destruction wouldn’t be iconoclasm.

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