Iconoclasm (the movement to "smash icons") started from within the church itself. A few iconoclastic bishops in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) believed the Bible, particularly Exodus 20:4, forbade such images:"You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or ...
so Richard ordered the massacre of his 2,700 captives, many of them women and children. They waited in line, each watching the one in front have their throat slit. Wives were slaughtered at the side of their husbands
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other rock-carved and cave churches, such as those at Cherkos, Wik’ro, Abraha Azba, and the great mountain monastery at Debre Damo. In the 17th and 18th centuries, more Christian churches were erected, some with splendid interior painting, such as Debre Berhan Selassie inGonder, Ethiopia....