<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam</a> is pretty interesting. E.g.:<br><br>"<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism" title="Aniconism" target="_blank">Aniconism</a> in Islam</b> is a proscription in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam" title="Islam" target="_blank">Islam</a> against the creation of images of sentient living beings."<br><br>"The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran" title="Quran" target="_blank">Quran</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_holy_books" title="Islamic holy books" target="_blank">Islamic holy book</a>, does not explicitly prohibit the depiction of human figures; it merely condemns <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry" title="Idolatry" target="_blank">idolatry</a>."<div class="gmail_extra"><br>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism" target="_blank">Judaism</a>, which is related to Islam as a monotheistic faith of Adam, Abraham, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses" title="Moses" target="_blank">Moses</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_in_Islam" title="Moses in Islam" target="_blank">Mūsa</a>), and other prophets, has a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry_in_Judaism" title="Idolatry in Judaism" target="_blank">comparable prohibition</a> which takes the form of a prohibition on any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_image" title="Cult image" target="_blank">idol</a> or on any artistic representation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Judaism" title="God in Judaism" target="_blank">God</a>."</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And yet, if you create something that the current day watered down version of Judaism would actually still consider an idol, STILL nobody would die.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, everyone drives Mercedes Benzes.</div><div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div></div></div></div>