FEBRUARY 13:  CHRISTIANS, PAGANS AND JEWS IN CONFLICT

These [are] the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree... (Deuteronomy 12:1-3)

Temple at Baalbek (Lebanon)

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image... (Exodus 20:3-4)

Idol-worshippers (from the Dura Synagogue):

Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images (Exodus 23:24)

Fides Idolatria Conculcat (Faith Stomps on Idolatry):

And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place (Deuteronomy 12:1-3)

Defacement of Egyptian hieroglyphs by Christian monks:

Pharaonic Temple at Luxor, with columns in foreground from early Christian basilicas, and late medieval mosque:

Pagan statues marked with the sign of the cross:

Medusa head, originally from a pagan temple, now a column-base in Justinian's underground cistern (Constantinople):

Was Saint Ambrose an apologist for terrorism?  You decide!

The Serapeum (Alexandria), destroyed in 391

Serapis:

The Jews: