Ignorant Butshikans-in-the-making (H for now) always tell those of Vaidika MArga that Devata mUrties & Mandiras are unVedic.
Like all ignorant anti-Hindus they know 0 of well-established Vaidika Tradition & Demand evidence to counter Their Novel beliefs.
https://twitter.com/Truth_z7/status/1386257619015266305?s=20 https://twitter.com/Truth_z7/status/1386257619015266305

Moorties & Mandirams (& temple/pooja rituals) clearly explained in shAstras as having 1-to-1 correspondence with Vaidika Devatas & yaj~nashAlas & yaj~nas. Moorties come from YajanIya Devata. Well-known to H scholars & thence us avg Hs who've often had to deal with soft-Butshikans

-yajurvEda praises as blessed the hand that touches (worships) Shiva MUrti. Kanchi Matha explanation in line with other Hs: https://kamakoti.org/kamakoti/stotra/Sri%20Rudram%20Anuvakam11.html
-valmIki rAmAyaNa: in Agastya's hermitage, SriRama sees Devas mUrties incl Varuna descr with pASha in hand
http://valmikiramayan.net/aranya/sarga12/aranyaitrans12.htm

An AchArya scholar on Deva-mUrties & Mandirams being from vEda:
-"clear mention of sage TvaShTA as a devashilpi"
-"kAThaka saMhitA refers to sage Devala who lived by preparing mUrties"
-"the sAmaveda refers to a mUrti" and "a ref to a mandiram in the Atharvaveda"

-"ShaDvimsha brAhmaNa, TaittirIya brAhmaNa & TaittirIya AraNyaka refer both to the moorties of devas and its sculptors like TvaShTA"
-"In shrautasUtras & gR^ihyasUtras, worship of Devas through mUrties in temples well-established"

Ignorant "Hindu" Butshikans-in-the-making have 0 knowledge, comprehension & insight. They don't know why Agama equated as Veda (Nigama). No conception of the 1-to-1 correspondence. Whereas this is well known in Actual Hindu tradition & its scholars from shruti & shAstras.

In India, mUrti & mandira making is orig & excl Vaidika. Non-Vaidika in India _inculturated_ (digestion) on this exclusively Vaidika tradition. YajanIya Devata literally means Devata invoked through yaj~na.

Classes of Deva-mUrties incl svayambhu, made by Devas, R^ishis, manuSha.

1-to-1 correspondance of Agama/pUja & Veda=Nigama:
-Offering food to Devatas & Abhishekam are Same Acts as Homa (offering food to Devatas) & Oblations.
"Naivedyam" at home: (ghee) sacrifice offering to Devatas before we partake of it as prasAda.
PrasAda derives from yaj~na too.

Hindus know very well to offer food etc to our Devas before we partake as prasada. Equivalent of homas, yajurveda.
We offer stotras & songs (folk or classical) as adorations of the Vaidika Devatas: the equivalent of Richas & Samans.
Offering flowers is Mantra puShpa from Veda.

All Hs (hunters/Vaidika ritualists) thus perform the Vaidika rites: acts of homa, stutis of praise as R^ichas, songs as sAmam, flowers/garlands as garlands of Vaidika Mantras.
Bhakti is Vedic: felt by R^iShis & avg H thus.
All Hs at scale Participate in the Same Acts at Mandiras:

All Hs visiting H Mandiras are lit attending yaj~nashAla & witnessing live yaj~na e.g. abhishekas.
All Hs getting darshanam of Devatas at mandiram incl esp in garbhagR^iham are Seeing the Vaidika Devatas, like the R^iShis with divyachakShus saw the invoked yajanIya dEvata in Agni

An acharya's summary of shilpa shAstras explains that MUrtis of the Vaidika Devatas are constructed based on R^iShis' direct darshanam (as they have divyachakShus): having full vision of the Vaidika Devatas, R^iShis captured the details of each yajanIya dEvata in dhyAna mantras.+

+ Our sacred H shilpis (bhaktas trained in shilpa shAstra, leading sacred lives) "bind themselves with dIkSha" in these dhyAna mantras, meditating on the mantra & praying constantly to the Devata to reveal their form. Gradually the Devata reveals themselves in mantraMurti form +

to our H Shilpis. (Mantras are subtle forms of the Vaidika Devatas' bodies, capturing their essence.) This revelation of mantramUrti form our sacred Vaidika shilpis then sculpt into moorties. (Similarly for temples, which are larger versions of the Devatas' bodies.

NB:
-1-to-1 transfer of R^iShi's direct darshanam into all legitimate mUrtis.
-yaj~nashAla/yaj~nya, which Are temples/moorties & rites, Are the Devatas themselves, their Own bodies. Hence VarAhamUrti (Hari avatAram) is known as yaj~nyAnga. Likewise Shivalingam is yaj~nya's Agni.

Our Nigama (Veda) and Vaidika Agama are not only equivalents and identical, Agama is used interchangeably with Veda as it's other name and means Nigama.

The words like stambha & area named for bali etc in mandira, come from yaj~nashAla too, and are Agama counterparts/equivalents of yaj~na.

It's why all Butshikans want to break our temple worship & our Agamic rites which are (of course) as strict as our Veda rites.

So Butshikans of all stripes try to stop mUrti pUja in our Vaidika temples & now even in our homes by trying to brainwash Hs into thinking mUrti pUja is unVaidika.
But Butshikans-to-be know 0 of Vaidika MArga. The Veda is Lived & Performed 1st-hand by all mUrti-worshipping Hs.

Takeaways:
- Only authentic depictions of our Devatas are made by H bhaktas following shilpAshAstras as described. This means Butshikan malignant nonsense claiming to be of our Devas are Not so & are thus Irrelevant to Hs.
- Bhaktas of Vaidika mArga: Never give up mUrti pUjA.
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-Ward Hs from Butshikans-to-be
-Don't believe the anti-Vaidika missionary frauds who inculturated on the exclusively Vaidika tradition of making moorties & mandiras yet today have started propagating that their religions invented these things. No they Didn't and could Never have.

Expose those like the Butshikan-to-be in 1st tweet to onlooking Hs with a few unref'd facts. Don't give them info/refs. They don't deserve it after attempting to brainwash Hs against Vaidikam/Devas pretending all-knowingness: let them keep to their ignorance. Hs owe them Nothing.

Of course, for those of Vaidika Maarga (no one else), who genuinely enquire because of such confusion perpetrated against them, how mUrti Puja/Mandiras are related to Veda, explain and arm with info etc.