[GraniteStateConservative]

It’s pagan fertility goddess imagery used in Christian art.

[AnAmericanMother]

It’s pagan fertility goddess imagery used in Christian art.

I completely disagree. If you actually LOOK at pagan fertility images, the physical attributes of fecundity and lactation are grossly exaggerated.

Artemis of Ephesus -- for whom the silversmiths rioted in the streets against St. Paul.

The paintings of the Blessed Virgin nursing simply point out that she really was a mother, with all that implies.

[annalex]

I’d say, with the Church Fathers, that pagan art and pagan wisdom were proof of the rationality of Christian doctrines.