Double standard EVANS, they sanctify and condone bowing toward the Ark Of Covenant which we also take in consideration it's holiness, but condemning Sunnah Muslims of kissing what they consider a gift from the god himself, also condemning us of bowing to the god toward the ancient house of the God which it has many fruits some of these fruits :-
1- a universal direction for the Submitters rituals to tide their rituals.....
2- directing their faces towards a place where the god name being remembered is better than taking Las Vegas as their Qibla...
3- to make the whole earth as a prostration area for Muslims... better than making it a nations of bastards, pornographize it, and marrying gays in churches like how Christians are trying to do in it.
4- to unite Muslims.. (the most thing they hates)
5- to simplify the rituals not to be just inside a main big temples, or just front of a movable sanctified God's gift or inheritance .…
...etc. of fruits and workout active spiritual rituals , unlike Christians lazy bum eating drinking their god body, and setting on chairs or disco/nightclub dancing disgraceful rituals.
also they have no passage condemn bowing toward the houses of the God.
There are a close relations within sanctifying the ark of covenant that Jews and also prophet Joshua ﷺ were using it as a direction to bow to the god toward it (which is maybe still lost), and the black stone that the sunnah Muslims are optionally kissing (which is broken or maybe missing anyway).
these divisions are considering these stuffs as the God inheritance(Jews, Muslims, and Christian(hypo Evans) who are compelled to do so : D, but they wished it didn't happened so they can defame Islam in anyway possible), so sanctifying them is because they considers/thinks it's a gifts from the God, but not that the God has dwelled in that ark, or dwelled in that stone, or in Humans, Cows, rats , and these [censored] juicers like how Christians and Hindus and others who are similar to them believes.....
most modern Muslims are neutral about that since there are no harm in sanctifying what ppl considers an inheritance gifts from the God just like the ark who maybe the God had to used it as a crutch of believe, confident, and serenity for the too much denying/doubting Israel sons. so it seems he took into consideration their malignancy, and replaced their loving of worshiping Calves and idols and gave them something reminding of him instead as a fruitful alternative.
we can easily extract the fruits/juice of having the black stone in the ancient house of the God ... we consider it as a corner stone of the ancient house of the God nothing more.
1- we touches it for the sake of touching a target and leave in order to politely change the movement routine,
2-using it as an alert for counting rounds,
3- to alert us in keep remembering the god if we got dispersed,
some of us never kissed it coz fearing of new diseases, and also coz it's not compulsory even in sunnah.
there is an image of prophets Moses ﷺ and Joshua ﷺ represent condoning bowing toward the ark of covenant as in Joshua 7:6
the fruits of hajj .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JKPgHIGlUEsome related webs for what I said.
http://defendinginerrancy.com/bible-solutions/Exodus_25.18ff.phphttps://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/10495/why-do-we-bow-down-in-the-direction-of-the-ark
