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  Re: The Sistine Chapel - Fine Art & Hypocrisy  
From: Darren New
Date: 5 Jun 2010 13:24:39
Message: <4c0a8857$1@news.povray.org>
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?

I'm also pretty sure that when people made statues pre-YHVH, they weren't 
really worshiping the statues either.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.


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