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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