We are blessed to be Orthodox Christians because it is a faith based on the teachings of Jesus Christ, His Disciples, Apostles and saints. Icons are not "idols" because while idols depict figments of imagination, icons depict reality... the reality that Jesus Christ is fully God and man, God among us. The difference between "ancestor worship" and the true veneration/honor of saints. We are blessed because it is in the Orthodox Church that God meets His People, and His People meet their God.