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Warp wrote:
> Most christian churches like only 9 of the commandments. The second one
> (about not doing images of God or anything else) they don't like too much,
I think here's an excellent distinction between catholic and the rest of
christianity. You can immediately tell a catholic church from a protestant
church, as the catholic will have jesus on the cross and a protestant church
won't. There are very few images of jesus in a typical protestant church,
no saints being worshiped instead of god, no "mother mary" stuff, etc.
From my early years as a church-goer, the only images of jesus I remember
is inside the cover of the bible, a head-shot with a halo. Not even the
crown-of-thorns look-what-youve-done-now kind of picture.
> Of course there's nothing in the Bible itself to justify this.
The most amusing argument I hear is "No, that means don't make idols of any
*other* gods."
Or "we're not worshiping the idols, we're worshiping what the idols
portray." Like they thought the pharoh was worshiping the statue of anubis
or something.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
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