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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Catholic here, and I"m surprised at the discussion of "gory crosses."   Most (not all) of the crucifixes I have seen show very little or no blood.  Yes, there are nails  through his hands and feet, but no blood showing.   In all my years as a Catholic child I never really realized or was told the gory details associated with being crucified.  I was well into adulthood before it even occurred to me.[/quote]

Even a little blood coming from nail holes in hands and feet is gory to someone who's not used to seeing it once a week, as big (or bigger) than life, as the centerpiece of an altar.  Did you ever do the stations of the cross as a child?  It's all about how Jesus was humiliated and tortured on the way to his death.  
#10 is Jesus is stripped of his garments and #11 is  Jesus is nailed to the cross[/quote]

My DC handle Stations of the Cross just fine as does every other child I see there.[/quote]

Of course, they're used to it.  See what happens when you bring in a kid who doesn't know that their playmates worship a guy with bleeding holes in his hands and feet, wearing what looks like a diaper and hanging from a cross[/quote]

Children are able to accept a lot more than we give them credit for if given context and support.[/quote]

Yes- if you give children the right "context and support" they would probably be willing to do or think a lot of things they would never come up with on their own.

They might accept that beating their mother was OK if they saw their father doing it, or might think smoking was OK if they saw Mom doing it.  With the right context and support kids could learn to hate certain groups of people only because their parents taught them to.

They might also determine, with their parents help, that hey should worship a guy whose father sent him here to die for our sins -- briefly -- after which he resuscitated and went to heaven where he now judges us to determine whether we rate an eternity in heaven with him and his father who came up with this whole salvation scheme.  If not, we suffer forever.  Many children have accepted this, with context and support from their parents -- at least while they were children.[/quote]

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