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To: vladimir998

***In a way this is chickens coming home to roost so to speak. The Presbyterians did so much to encourage iconoclasm in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.***

But lets remember that Savanarola encouraged iconoclasm before that, and a certain Byzantine emperor before that.


66 posted on 12/20/2006 7:45:18 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (ISLAM "If you don’t know what you have to fear, you will not survive."---Hirsi Ali)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

You wrote: "But lets remember that Savanarola encouraged iconoclasm before that, and a certain Byzantine emperor before that."

Savonorola never encouraged a general, wanton iconoclasm. The wall paintings in his monastic cell were never damaged for instance. He encouraged the destruction of images he considered immodest.


75 posted on 12/20/2006 9:31:36 AM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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