Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Idolatry Message-ID: <381@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 11:30:43 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxt.381 Posted: Thu Nov 29 11:30:43 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 06:49:05 EST References: <1766@ucf-cs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 21 > * Yiri responds: > * Whether it is for the purposes of worship or not is not the > * distinguishing factor. It is an image of something which is > * worshipped. That is idolatry. I don't know how many different ways > * this will have to be said for it to be understood. The prohibition > * of idolatry is against the making of any kind of image/painting, > * etc. of an entity of worship. Not even angels can be depicted. An image of something which is worshipped by whom? If druids worship trees, I don't think that it would be idolatrous for most of us to have pictures of trees around. (Maybe chuqui is an exception.) Along the same line, would it be idolatrous for a jew to use said stamps, since the nativity scene contains no entity of worship for him or her? Since the federal government is (supposedly) areligious, it is not apparently idolatrous for it to issue those stamps, but for christians to use them. Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j