Moralist always when - they have the strength of their beliefs over which
allow them to justify all things to assuage their conscience


On 4/30/09 12:44 PM, "Michael Brady" <[email protected]> wrote:

On Apr 30, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Saul Ostrow wrote:

> but Western civilization seems to be the only one that takes the
> religious artifacts and practices  of others and turns them into art

As opposed to turning them into rubble, as at Bamiyan.

Which, btw, is an act that actually acknowledged the persistence of
religious importance and vitality in the statues--by having infused
them with the power of an idol to be destroyed, rather than an image
to be reduced to aesthetic evidence.


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