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Muslims are offended by images of Muhamed.
They also claim that Jesus was a prophet of Islam. Why are they not offended by images of Jesus?
They also claim that Jesus was a prophet of Islam. Why are they not offended by images of Jesus?
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Yes - it's not dissimilar to the Christian exhortation not to pray to graven images - it's because only God should be worshipped, and nobody can see God.
The suggestion is that if you show pictures, it's the pictures/images which eventually might come to be worshipped, not God/Allah. (Not so different when they buried Gaddafi in the desert so his grave shouldn't become a place of pilgrimage..)
The suggestion is that if you show pictures, it's the pictures/images which eventually might come to be worshipped, not God/Allah. (Not so different when they buried Gaddafi in the desert so his grave shouldn't become a place of pilgrimage..)
Eddie, it doesn't just apply to Mohammed. My post on this thread 17:08 Wed 11th Jan 2012......
//Going back to jno's post about pixellating faces, Muslims don't object to images for security reasons, but rather to prevent any image becoming an object of worship. Also in some societies people think that if an image is produced of themselves, their own soul is transferred to that image. This is why some Muslims will not allow themselves to be photographed.//
As far as I know, the Koran doesn't forbid it, but Mohammed did.
Sandy, the bible forbids making images - and we all know how holy Cromwell was. He even cancelled Christmas!
Mary Magdalene: There is nothing in the New Testament to indicate that Jesus was celibate, and several books have been written suggesting that he and Mary Magdalene were a couple, most notably 'The Jesus Scroll' by Donovan Joyce and 'The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail', by Richard Leigh, Michael Baigent and Henry Lincoln, both written before Dan Brown latched on to the idea - in fact one of Dan Brown's main characters, Leigh Teabing, was named from previous authors - Leigh (taken directly from Richard Leigh) Teabing - an anagram of Baigent. However, the ancient writers got there long before any of them, and some proclaimed Mary Magdalene to be the most important disciple of all with Jesus teaching her what he withheld from the rest. Although the church teaches that John was the unnamed 'disciple whom Jesus loved', there is plentiful evidence that it was Mary. The Gospel of Philip says Jesus kissed her often and another tells of the jealousy the other disciples felt at her elevated position within the hierarchy. She is celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox church, and elsewhere, but in the 6th century Pope Gregory suggested she had been a prostitute, and that reputation stuck in some quarters for centuries. Another early example of the continuing misogyny of the church.
//Going back to jno's post about pixellating faces, Muslims don't object to images for security reasons, but rather to prevent any image becoming an object of worship. Also in some societies people think that if an image is produced of themselves, their own soul is transferred to that image. This is why some Muslims will not allow themselves to be photographed.//
As far as I know, the Koran doesn't forbid it, but Mohammed did.
Sandy, the bible forbids making images - and we all know how holy Cromwell was. He even cancelled Christmas!
Mary Magdalene: There is nothing in the New Testament to indicate that Jesus was celibate, and several books have been written suggesting that he and Mary Magdalene were a couple, most notably 'The Jesus Scroll' by Donovan Joyce and 'The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail', by Richard Leigh, Michael Baigent and Henry Lincoln, both written before Dan Brown latched on to the idea - in fact one of Dan Brown's main characters, Leigh Teabing, was named from previous authors - Leigh (taken directly from Richard Leigh) Teabing - an anagram of Baigent. However, the ancient writers got there long before any of them, and some proclaimed Mary Magdalene to be the most important disciple of all with Jesus teaching her what he withheld from the rest. Although the church teaches that John was the unnamed 'disciple whom Jesus loved', there is plentiful evidence that it was Mary. The Gospel of Philip says Jesus kissed her often and another tells of the jealousy the other disciples felt at her elevated position within the hierarchy. She is celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox church, and elsewhere, but in the 6th century Pope Gregory suggested she had been a prostitute, and that reputation stuck in some quarters for centuries. Another early example of the continuing misogyny of the church.
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