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They destroyed idols, IE statues that had become possessed by demons and were performing false miracles to get people to worship as a god whatever heroic figure the statue was. Most of the Pagan "gods" were never intended to be as such, they were just commemorating their heroes, but over time, demons began to warp this commemoration into divine worship by pretending they were the person that the statue was meant to represent. If the Christians were destroying statues willie nilly (like the muslims, who are iconoclasts, do), there would be nothing left. In reality, Christians preserved a lot of statues that werent being tainted by demons because we respect other cultures and their heroes, we just hate idolatry, because it is a form of fraud that denies God His due and dishonors the memory of the ancestors.