"TC" <do-not-reply@i-do get-enough-spam-already-2498.com> wrote:
>
> Do not get me wrong - the images are nice and exceptional pieces of art.
> Which means I like them, especially in their restored state. Nonetheless,
> how can it be that the Pope, the steward of Christ, is elected beneath a
> blasphemous image?
>
> When, as a child, I first looked upon the "Creation of Adam", my first
> though was: nice picture. My second thought was: isn't there a commandment
> telling us "thou shalt not make an image of god"? How can it be that in one
> of the most holy places of Christendom there is an image in violation of the
> commandments themselves, a sacrilegious blasphemy beneath which the Vicar of
> Christ is elected?


When people note some hypocrisy, and actually care about faithfulness to the
source material, they start a Reformation.

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