I'm sorry you feel as if I have judged anyone on this thread. I must admit I wish I had been more gracious when being personally insulted as to our church and my walk with God simply because I choose not to judge others by the clothes they wear. I have disagreed with some viewpoints on this thread, as have you.
You said, "So why would he wear 2,000+ year old clothes to an opera today?" My goodness. I believe Jesus can appear to us any time He chooses, any where He chooses, wearing any manner of clothes He chooses.
I would be interested to hear your response to what I was actually saying in my last post. Do you find it impossible that Jesus could appear in a form other than what you expect? Do you find it impossible to believe that He could appear as one of "us"?
Most people would expect Jesus to appear as HE does in paintings,I think; but my point was that why would HE? Why wouldn't HE appear looking just like anyone else? People who know HIM, would know HIM in their hearts,no matter what HE was wearing.
I didn't say a thing about your church,BTW.
And replies went waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off topic,on this thread, in a most ridiculous and personal way.The whole point,if I'm not mistaken,of the article, is how our culture has been devalued and dumbed down,by the way people now dress. People behave differently,when they wear different types of clothing. This is well know and has been for at least a century.People also react to people,by how they are dressed. Is this superficial and petty? No,I really don't think so.
If someone wore a ball gown to a picnic on a beach, everyone there would find that inappropriate.Wearing jeans to the opera is the obverse of that same coin...but it is becoming more and more accepted;which is a bad thing.