Now they sin more and more, And have made themselves molten images of their silver, Even idols according to their own understanding, All of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, "They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves."
The mass insanity on the part of mankind which leads them in the attribution of divine attributes to images was exposed and denounced by the apostle Paul in his famed address on Mars' hill in Athens.  "Men ought not to think that God is like an image graven with art and man's device" (Acts 17:22-31).