Warp wrote:
>   Actually most protestant churches don't like the God image prohibition
> either, so they have it the same as catholics.

I can only speak for the protestant churches I've been in, which admittedly 
aren't as many, because they're not cool to look at. ;-)  I just know that 
in my personal experience, catholic churches tend to be full of statues and 
paintings, protestant churches it's pretty much limited to a few paintings 
and stained glass work, and synagogues and mosques have no human depictions. 
I've never seen a crucifix in a protestant church, for example.

>   Curiously this is even so for more liberal denominations such as the
> pentecostal church and many others, at least here. I don't know how it
> is with the big churches on the other side of the Atlantic, eg. with
> baptists.

Yeah. I have so little experience with protestant churches that they're all 
just "protestant" to me. Most of my experience is from my childhood when I 
was actually attending such churches.

>   (Many people argue that the commandments are not actually numbered, and
> only vagely referred to as "the ten" much later, so there's no telling
> exactly which number goes to what. It still doesn't justify skipping the
> image prohibition, though, as it is right there after the first commandment.)

There's actually three sets of commandments, one of which is called "the ten 
commandments" in the bible itself, the other two sets being given to Moses, 
as I recall.

-- 
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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