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To: Romulus
Fortunately such temptations have been fleeting, but they would manifest themselves more frequently were I forced to contemplate a naked crucifix on a regular basis, even though I concede it is 100% historically accurate.

Your theology is right on and it does make sense to a point. However, Jesus did appeared clothed after the resurrection, so that ought to tell us something. Clothes for this world, who knows what for the next. Nakedness in the next world (the symbolism of it) is another horror. I suppose a book could be written about the subject, but we have too much nakedness, lewdness, and shameless in our world today without inviting more of it from wherever it comes.

In a perfect world, complete with proper climate control, nakedness may be the norm, but not in the one I must inhabit.

Thank heaven for clothing. Thank heaven for what we have left of modesty. Some people are modest by nature, and others are naturally exhibitionistic. Blessed are the simpletons who don't flaunt their erotic body parts.

Man, we didn't used to even have to think of such things. Men undressing women in their minds; probably today undressing men in their minds; what blessing it is to be free of such stuff.

I think, with the exception of seriously fallen women, men have different views in this subject than women.

101 posted on 03/27/2004 1:36:31 PM PST by Aliska
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To: Aliska; Romulus
I think we're all overblowing the nudity thing, both ways. If Jesus was naked on the cross, well, that's just a historical thing, the way they crucified people. I don't think there's a theological significance in and of itself.
116 posted on 03/28/2004 10:42:31 AM PST by Conservative til I die
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