graven image

They even introduced a blemish into the carving to address our concerns with the biblical injunction against graven images.

Their lawsuit said they won’t allow themselves to be photographed “for any reason,” in keeping with their Old Order Amish belief that photos of people are “graven images” prohibited by the biblical Second Commandment.

Some passed him like he was one of the graven images carved into the columns.

As Jehovah’s Witnesses who believed that venerating the flag violated God’s prohibition against bowing to graven images, the Gobitas family argued that the flag salute infringed the children’s First Amendment rights.

By every measure, we are again in an era defined by a hostility to graven images.