DEUTERONOMY 12
DEVARIM
Words [of Moses]
3 And ye shall overthrow their altars [mizbechot], and break their pillars [matzeivot], and burn their groves [Asherim] with fire [eish]; and ye shall hew down the graven images [peselim] of their gods [elohim], and destroy the names of them out of that place.
4 Ye shall not do so unto Yahweh your Elohim.
"They burned or scraped the altars which the latter made use of, as being polluted by impure sacrifices, and broke their (communion) cups. They looked upon the vows made in their communion as of no value; in a word, they would not communicate with them. They maintained that the ecclesia ought to be made up of just and holy men, or, at least, of those who were such in appearance; and that, although wicked men might lurk in the ecclesia, yet it should not harbor those who were known to be such."
...Behold, too, how energetic their testimony against the barren formality or sacramentalism which reigned on every side. They repudiated it as abhorrent to spiritual purity. Did a courtly bishop consecrate an altar for the exposition thereon of the bread and wine?
If that piece of ecclesiastical furniture came into their possession, they regarded the thing as polluted by impure sacrifices, and either burned it as church trumpery, or, if deemed convenient as a table, they scraped it clear of all imaginary sacramental unction ere they recognized it as fit for the use of those
"who worship Deity in spirit and in truth."
Eureka 7.10.