andrel <byt### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> On 5-6-2010 16:44, Warp wrote:
> > andrel <byt### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> >> On 27-5-2010 18:05, Darren New wrote:
> > 
> >>> Or "we're not worshiping the idols, we're worshiping what the idols 
> >>> portray."   
> > 
> >> That is sort of the dogma in the orthodox church. As I said elsewhere, I 
> >> was in a monastery, a Greek orthodox one.
> > 
> >   Am I too cynic if I say that's just playing with words to get around
> > the prohibition?

> Yes, I think so. You implicitly assume that they know they are trying to 
> get around the commandment. As far as I can tell they really believe 
> that via the icon or relic they come closer to the saint, jesus, but 
> mainly the virgin Mary.

  It's fortunate that kind of reasoning doesn't work in a more earthly court
of law with more earthly crimes...

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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