[ealgeone]

We have a brick from the Berlin Wall on our mantel. My father-in-law got it from an Army friend. It is next to a little US flag. Does it have a place of respect? Yes. Do we idolize it? No. If you saw it in my house, would you go all huffy and demand more documentation than the very little we have? Anyone would think it insolent for you to do so.

Do you kneel before the brick and pray to it?

Do you rely or appeal to it for your eternal salvation?

Do you light candles or burn incense before it?

Do you flee to it for protection?

See the difference?

[metmom]

Exodus 20:4-6 “You shall not make for yourself a 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 or 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 the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

[Elsie]

Even the dreaded FSM only requires a small offering of marinara sauce now and then.