... the Hebrews emerging between 3000 and 2000 BC won an important political victory by denouncing what they called the "worship of graven images." By destroying the power of the sculptures of the Sumerians, and others who preceded them, they effectively destroyed nature-based religion and the veracity of images.
This made possible the substitution of an abstract, male, human, all-powerful God. Because it was a sin to create any sculpture of it, it maintained its abstract nature.
Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
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