Will wrote:
> you would have to be a very thin-skinned secularist/agnostic/
> atheist that fears religious iconography to ever think that 
> a hand pointing up has anything to do with deism - at 
> least in from my book, there is no instance of it ever 
> being used.  

A few years ago I learned that on older gravestones in some parts of
the US, you'll find a hand with index finger extended and pointed
upwards. Representing "ascension to heaven."

http://tinyurl.com/65qols

// jeff


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