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iconoclastic - destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited destructive - causing destruction or much damage; a policy that is destructive to the economy; destructive criticism
It actually happened. Emperors of Byzantium, having set their minds to control the church and its forms of worship, used armies to oppose the veneration of icons, smashing many of the art works in the process. This destruction of icons is called iconoclasm. An icon is a stylized representation of God, Christ, or a saint. By the early middle ages, icons (and other images) were widely used as aids to devotion--or as objects of worship.