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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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My boys would actually ask to go to mass if it were this interesting.[/quote]

+1 LOL

I took my DS to Paris and the two things we loved best were the catacombs and the sewer ride.  The catacombs in Paris, unlike those in Rome, were actually constructed from bones from a cemetery as a tourist attraction in the 18th century.

I don't get why so many are saying the depictions of how brutish life can be are antiquated.  Torture is still a very real thing throughout the world and, yes, not just among third world perpetrators but also some that are purely US of A.

Thus, I don't find it offensive to have reminders in church of human cruelty that is still very much a present day reality.  A sanitized religion in an unsanitized world seems incongruous to me. [/quote]

Would you be in favor of bringing torture equipment from the inquisition into churches?[/quote]

And loin clothes.[/quote]

Only Jesus can wear a loin cloth.  All other men must wear pants that cover the knees.[/quote]

What about Tarzan?[/quote]

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