The whole iconoclastic controversy has raged for thousands of years. In a nutshell, iconoclasts are taking your position, whereas iconodules maintain the position that what Christians do is venerate not worship these images. Muslims obviously are strict iconoclasts, and thus reject any depiction whatsoever. 

Over the centuries, Christian thought has alternated on what artistic representations are. When Cromwell took Power in the 1650s, for example, they went all Iconoclast and started smashing all the icons they could find, not altogether unlike the rebels in Mali or the Taliban in Afghanistan who blew up the Bamuyan Buddhas. 

The Seventh Ecumenical Council in particular weighed in on this, however, declaring that representations of Christ do not infringe on the person of Christ and are thus not idols. Unlike Hinduism where there is a spectrum  of attitude towards what one is doing with, say, a lingam,  there is official ruling, accepted by "all" of the  worlds  Christians (at least  by   Catholics, Protestants and orthodox ) that declares this is veneration and not Latreia.  

St. John of Damascus says:


  Concerning the charge of idolatry: Icons are not idols but symbols, therefore when an Orthodox venerates an icon, he is not guilty of idolatry. He is not worshipping the symbol, but merely venerating it. Such veneration is not directed toward wood, or paint or stone, but towards the person depicted. Therefore relative honor is shown to material objects, but worship is due to God alone.
  
  We do not make obeisance to the nature of wood, but we revere and do obeisance to Him who was crucified on the Cross... When the two beams of the Cross are joined together I adore the figure because of Christ who was crucified on the Cross, but if the beams are separated, I throw them away and burn them.


Does actual practice sometimes get this wrong? Sure. The nature of syncretism is such that in some cultures, practices bleed across beliefs. Offering incense, devotion, and performing  rites that look like idol. Worship is not surprising in a culture where the majority pursues it. Doesn't mean it's orthodox in any event. 

One could look at the perversion of Jihad and say, "Muslims are  all suicide bombers,  " too- but many don't because we can distinguish between orthodoxic pronouncement and individual  (mis)practice.  You would do well to consider the same. 

Idolatry in churches allowed?
I recently discovered that BlackBerry treats all classes with the same fully-qualified name as identical--regardless of whether they are in entirely different apps or not--causing apps that use different versions of our shared libraries to break when they are installed on the same phone.

To solve this problem, we are planning on changing the package names to include a version number, then building.  Can someone explain how, using Bamboo, I can insert a step in our build process that:


changes certain packages names
replaces all code references to the old package name with references to the new package name?

