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Interesting. That is different information than I have from other Orthodox sources. What about the Bible in the hands of the common man during the dark ages, when copies were generated at the hand of scribes?Actually literacy in the Christian East was much higher than in Western Europe during the Dark Ages, and the use of icons has only increased along with literacy in the Orthodox world, so the idea that the icons are some sort of visual substitute for reading the Bible, aside from being entirely contradicted by the Iconodule fathers like St. John of Damascus and the Seventh Ecumenical Council, is also debunked
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