If you actually want to go there , the idea is that God is singular insofar as there are no gods before him . Therefore to worship something like a statue of a cow made of gold , thinking it is the Creator of All Existence , not only is it disrespectful , it ' s intellectually ignorant . As much as I want to live in a free society , if there are people who think a statue created them and everything around them , they should be educated in matters of logic and reason so they can see for themselves the falsity of any of their beliefs . I ' ll admit I am somewhat unique in my Christendom , leaving to the sides the human garbage that was added to a belief that started out so pure and wellwishing . I won ' t excuse assholes who use the Christian religion as a shield to be fuckwits , but they don ' t represent my personal beliefs , and you shouldn ' t associate them with every individual Christian or the whole ideal either .