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I can see how that would be refreshing!Agreed 100%. It was refreshing though to see people openly proclaim their faith. In the old villages, practically every village had a shrine for their patron saint of the local church or cathedral. Almost every home in the old villages had either an icon or a 3D relief of the Theotokos and Jesus or a saint. Others had a Christian symbol above the door. I enjoyed seeing people proclaiming faith publically rather than hiding it.
While our tradition doesn't have lots of statues for historical reasons, the notion that it is because statues are unworthy of veneration doesn't seem theologically justifiable.I like the way the statues look in alcoves. Though from an Orthodox point of view, statues in an actual worship context would be a problem. My husband would violently object as well, as looking "Catholic". The really ironic thing to me is that within a 5 foot space on the wall beside me, I have a small statue of Christ as the Good Shepherd, a large figurine of the Flight into Egypt, a resin statue of a lion lying with a lamb, and an angel. It's not as though we don't have such things, it is how they are displayed and treated.
While our tradition doesn't have lots of statues for historical reasons, the notion that it is because statues are unworthy of veneration doesn't seem theologically justifiable.
7th ecumenical council says nothing about:
No graven images means no statues, but paintings are ok!
Statues are all realistic, realism distracts/ makes you imagine in a bad way!
These are really modern ad hoc complaints.
Shrine to St. George in Greece:
You know, things like this always make me wonder - who built it, and why? When? Who visits it, and what do they do, what do they pray for? I'm also curious about the way it is built, all the parts and and their purpose, and the reason it was constructed this way and not that, and the particulars (who owns the land - do they need permission to build such a thing?) and so on. It would make an interesting book, to discuss such things about a number of Orthodox shrines in Greece.
I wish there were. Though I realize some of the questions I'm asking would probably be unanswerable. But a few answers, some about this shrine and some about that one, would still be interesting to read.You know Anastasia, I had the same questions when I started researching all this, but there doesn't seem to be a book, or at least I can't find it. There really should be.
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