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Sorry, you misunderstood my point completely. (I'm not OP, by the way, in case you are mistaking me for her or someone else.)  I LOVE the vividness of Catholic  imagery.  Life is nasty, brutish, and short -- for most people throughout history-- and I love that the church recognizes the physicality of bodies.  They bleed, they hurt, they're made of flesh and bones.   Ok, so I confess I'm coming at it from an anthropologist's POV, but it is so much more fascinating and appealing than the sanitized Protestant aesthetic.  Whenever I go to Europe I seek out those old churches that have relics and lifelike crucifixes and altarpieces showing the martydom of the saints the like.  And I love it when I see modern day pilgrims venerating these objects.  (Like St. Anthony's tongue in Padua -- there are lines to get in to see it!)   It's so compelling and makes such a tangible link to the past.  Walking into a modern, stark church with no decoration, that depresses me.

Embrace your church's history!  [/quote]

St. Anthony - ew
And I say this as a former Catholic who's still very much Italian!

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