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The philistines were the image-breakers; they shattered the household gods and the patron saints.
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Here are some of the more explosive clashes. 741The Byzantine Iconoclasts ( "image-breakers") thought that pictures and statues led to idolatry.
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Constantinople, till the reign of the empress Theodora, who gave the force of law to the second Council of Nice, extinguished the party of Iconoclasts, or image-breakers, and exerted the utmost extent of her authority against the Manichæans.
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For the image-breakers, idolaters were either fools (holding naïve, ridiculous convictions) or knaves (forcing ridiculous convictions on others for financial profit, or dissembling their own heinous beliefs by pretending not to hold them).
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No one understood images more literally than the image-breakers.
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For the image-breakers, idolaters were either fools (holding naïve, ridiculous convictions) or knaves (forcing ridiculous convictions on others for financial profit, or dissembling their own heinous beliefs by pretending not to hold them).
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No one understood images more literally than the image-breakers.
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The Iconoclasts ( "image-breakers") gained no support in the West.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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After which, all cried out, they were sons of obedience, who placed their glory in following the tradition of their holy mother the church; and they pronounced many anathemas against all image-breakers, that is, those who do not honor holy images, or those who call them Idols.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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These reformers were given the name of Iconoclasts (image-breakers).
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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