You're not much of an amateur one, either.


Like everything that came before it, and after.


By the eighth century AD the only threat to Rome from non-Christian forces was from the Muslims. Just as preaching had stopped in Asia Minor (because everyone was Christian) in the East, it stopped in Italy and France in the West (because everyone was Christian). It continued in Saxony in the West and in the Balkans in the East. Your statement is irrelevant in the first part and wrong in the second.


In addition to making grammatical and spelling errors (churchs indeed), this sentence is once again dead wrong, in all its particulars. Constantinople didn't do anything of the sort, and furthermore, for much of the first iconoclastic period most of the Popes were Greeks who had been appointed due to Byzantine control over much of Italy. Oh wait, but that doesn't help your narrative, does it?


Wow, you really don't know anything about this issue, do you? Leo III (from monophysite and Islamic-controlled Syria) started iconoclasm, probably due to his background, and it was the Empress Irene that stopped it the first time. Leo V (the Armenian) started the second wave, which was ended by Empress Theodora, widow of Theophilos. The emperors started iconoclastic movements, the empresses stopped them.