No Images in the Church Founded by the Apostle Thomas

From "A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. 2" by Samuel Moffett we learn that the Church in India founded by the Apostle Thomas condemned images.

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The St Thomas churches had no images; the Portuguese Catholics considered this to indicate a lack of proper reverence to Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints. Attributing all this to ignorance rather than to faithfulness to the traditions of the ancient church of the East in which the Indian Christians had been raised, the Portuguese sometimes gently, sometimes rudely, began to press the Indian Chrisitan communities to conform to Western Catholic custom.

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For example, the Malabar church condemns the pope's supremacy; denies transubstantiation; condemns images; denies purgatory, auricular confession, and extreme unction; and allows its priests to marry.

It is the confession of the Orthodox church that icons, images, are essential to the worship of the church.  This is according to the Second Council of Nicea where the worship of images was made a doctrine and the Synodikon of Orthodoxy which, on the first Sunday of every Lent, remembers and exalts the decisions of this council.

If anyone does not worship our Lord Jesus Christ depicted in the icons according to his humanity, let him be,  

Anathema (3) 

http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2010/02/synodicon-of-orthodoxy.html

Contrary to any assertions that the worship of icons has Apostolic roots we see that the church in India, which was founded by the Apostle Thomas, not only had no images but condemned them as well.  And no wonder for the condemnation of images is the true Apostolic tradition of the church and is in agreement with what all the Scriptures and many of the pre-Nicene Fathers have to say about images and the worship of them.

...it is not possible at the same time to know God and to address prayers to images. 

-Origen, Against Celsus, Book VII, chap lxv, pg. 637, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4

Wherefore it is undoubted that there is no religion wherever there is an image. For if religion consists of divine things, and there is nothing divine except in heavenly things; it follows that images are without religion, because there can be nothing heavenly in that which is made from the earth. 

-Lactantius, The Divine Institutes, pg. 68, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7

Perhaps there is much to learn from the Indian church regarding the true Apostolic tradition in contradistinction to the false traditions of the Western and Eastern churches.