Things that make you want to go hmm...

I hope that isn't really a church somewhere.

It's kind of ugly.

...go figure...

...with Barack Obama dead center. All politics aside, seriously, what business does his image have being in a church window?

All of those figures (Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Barack Obama, etc) would be fine as an honor to civil and cultural service (in some peoples' opinion), but they don't belong on a church window.

Mary

that's crazy

Hehehee
And the protestants say they are inconoclasts.

angrylittlefisherman said:

Hehehee
And the protestants say they are inconoclasts.

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Yeah...that's why they have a statue of Zwingli, one of the more prominent Reformers, in front of the church he pastored where he removed all the stained-glass.

Image-worshipping and all that...tsk tsk tsk.

angrylittlefisherman said:

Hehehee
And the protestants say they are inconoclasts.

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angrylittlefisherman said:

Hehehee
And the protestants say they are inconoclasts.

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But they ARE, as long as it's not one of theirs!

AoibhinnGrainne said:

Yeah...that's why they have a statue of Zwingli, one of the more prominent Reformers, in front of the church he pastored where he removed all the stained-glass.

Image-worshipping and all that...tsk tsk tsk.

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Not to be combative, but there is a bit of a difference between a statue in front of a church and, as I have seen in old Catholic churches, at least a dozen side altars where mass was once performed statues of saints on them and no Jesus at all.

What an insanely bizarre picture...

There is definitely something weird about the Obama crowd. He was praised and treated as some kind of hero before he did anything-what-so-ever.

Reminds me of a song on Guitar Hero called "Cult of Personality"...

E.C. said:

Reminds me of a song on Guitar Hero called "Cult of Personality"...

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THe Lenny Kravitz tune?

Khaleas said:

Sure is, a methodist church... and that window was just put in (replaced an old stained glass window).

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I thought that was a window at DNC headquarters.

They should have included a late-term abortion, but maybe the red stained glass is more expensive than the other colors.

Insubres said:

Not to be combative, but there is a bit of a difference between a statue in front of a church and, as I have seen in old Catholic churches, at least a dozen side altars where mass was once performed statues of saints on them and no Jesus at all.

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Yes. There is.

I lived in Ely, England for three years. Ely has this beautiful cathedral, dating from 1075. Once, the interior was completely covered with frescoed icons. There has been some archeology done to restore what they can.

There is a medieval chapel, dedicated to Our Lady, that at one time, was stunningly beautiful because of the glass work that soared up the buttressed walls.

Oliver Cromwell, a well-known Puritan and once Lord Protector of England, was once the rector of Ely Cathedral. During his "fight" to restore "right thinking" after centuries of "popery", he destroyed the windows of the Lady Chapel and covered over the frescoes. He also beheaded all the statuary. The Puritans believed these things were in complete violation of the 2nd Commandment. Cromwell believed the cathedral to be offensive even in it's architecture; he stabled his cavalry's horses there.

Yet, down the road from Ely, and elsewhere in England, commemorating his political career as "Lord Protector", are statues of Oliver Cromwell...there are also paintings galore. I sense a bit of a disconnect between theology and praxis in this; a lack of consistency in one's beliefs.

If you are an iconoclast, why have these things???

I'm just saying.