• Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    i think iconoclasm does genuinely emerge from an instinct that shitass art of holy thing would be bad, but one didn’t need AI to reach the conclusion art can be cringe

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      7 months ago

      Yeah, it’s probably far more likely they saw all the weird ideas Christians had about depicting the baby Jesus with an adult’s face and just decided to opt out.

    • oregoncom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      Don’t you dare insult minature grown man baby Jesus! I’ll have you know the Jesus Homonculus is the only canonical way to portray Infant Jesus and anyone who disagrees is a heretic.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      In ancient times, if you were conquered by a foreign army, your statues and graven images could just be re-labelled as their God(s), whereas if you had an iconoclastic tradition based in the written word, it was much harder to destroy your traditions.