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To: martin_fierro

I don't. It shows too much deference to the Islamic "Allah has no image".

They didn't respect the Christian tradition of the undepictablity of the Father (God Almighty--I don't think they had the wit to have duplicated an Ancient of Days icon, actually a peculiar icon of Christ--and the use of a third-person version of the priest's doxology at the end of the Our Father makes it clear they mean the 'God Almighty' action figure to be the Father), so why should they respect the Muslims' undepictablity convention? (Though I am sort of grimly delighted that they got the caption on Jesus' one 'weapon' correct "Death-Killer Cross" echoes "trampling down Death by death" in the Troparion of Pascha.)


22 posted on 01/11/2005 7:18:42 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was)
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To: The_Reader_David
It shows too much deference to the Islamic "Allah has no image".

Maybe he's been beheaded by mistake?

26 posted on 01/11/2005 7:21:43 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough (Don't think about my tagline.)
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To: The_Reader_David
It shows too much deference to the Islamic "Allah has no image".

I disagree. The reason they did that is that the Muslim faith forbids any image of Allah or Muhammed to be shown. It's still funny, and it doesn't desecrate any closely-held belief. If they had "shown" Allah, they'd have to show Mary having per-marital sex to give fair "comic" treatment to Christianity.

35 posted on 01/11/2005 7:28:42 AM PST by Teacher317
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