[WVKayaker]

Good luck with that misguided ill informed belief. This is my last reply to you on this topic.

Good luck with that! I did not post my belief. I posted facts...

cult [kuhlt]
1. a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers:
3. the object of such devotion.
4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
5. Sociology . a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.

Exodus 20: 4 You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

[caww]

I often wondered what some artists depicting what they see as religious art were thinking. Even today there is much art that doesn't at all resemble the reality of the scriptures as written.

Little girls playing violins is not what angels are....and they certainly don't carry a train for what appears to be Mary. Curious to know who this artist was depicting at the rear of her train.

At any rate one would say the imaginations of these artists were in a heightened state...but then artists do have vivid imaginations.