John of Damascus was the most ardent defender of icons. Iconoclasts, meaning "icon breakers" were those who were against the practice. They feared it would lead to idolatry, forbidden by the bible. He wrote many amounts of writings on the topic of icons that remains today.
Answer: Confucianism helped China by making it into a structured society where everyone had a place.
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