Why this word is great
ICONOMACHIST — [Noun] One who opposes the worship of images or idols. From Greek eikōn ("image") + makhia ("battle") + -ist (agent noun suffix). Unlike "iconoclast" (which implies the violent destruction of sacred images) or "idolater" (which describes the very act of worship the iconomachist resists), the iconomachist wages a quieter war—a refusal, not a demolition. It is the austere monk crossing himself before a bare wall, the Puritan whitewashing frescoes with lime, the scholar tracing scripture with a finger while turning his back on stained glass—each a testament to the human fear that the divine might be reduced to something graspable, and thus, diminished. To reject the image is to insist on the unseen, a faith that thrives in absence.