idolatry

From a Christian perspective, the worship of anything that is not the one true God. During the ReformationA revolutionary religious movement during the 16th century Europe that initially sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church but led to the emergence o... more era, many Protestants, particularly those from the reformed persuasion, accused Catholics of idolatry for their veneration of the Eucharistrefers to both the bread and wine consumed in the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper and to this sacred rite itself. The term comes from the Greek word ... more, religious art, and relics.