[Mrs. Don-o]

Does not follow, iscool. I have seen kids hundreds of times kneel around a Christmas Nativity scene at a church (not just Catholic churches, either), and they were not offering divine adoration to the li'l statues of shepherds, kings and camels, nor even the little plaster Baby. They were offering their honor and praise to the real Baby.

It would help if people were more Biblically literate. Even Msgr. Pope would have been a little more exact if he knew he would be challenged this way by iconophobes. Searching Scripture reveals that bowing, kneeling, even prostrating, does not always indicate divine adoration (though it's related.) The Biblical vocabulary of gesture is more varied and flexible than that.

And this is something you actually know, (link), iscool, but intriguingly, have never acknowledged.

[Salvation]

That link provides a thorough and true explanation. Thank you.