This thread addresses William's objection to my Avatar to the point of protesting that it violates the board's rules and calling it "sin". Please referrence the "Infestation of Contemporary Worship" thread. When I get off topic, I'm told to start a new thread. When I reminded William of this, he kept on pursuing his off topic remarks. Since it's only prudent that the governing directives apply to William as they do to me I'm sure this was merely an oversight and the rules truly are administered in a wholesale manner. In the interest of adhering to the rules of this distinguished forum, I will publish my response in a new thread:

William,

I'm sorry you don't like my avatar, but calling it sin is quite a stretch and I don't quite understand how it violates the board rules but, thus far, has escaped the notice of the Highway moderators. Perhaps you're misapplying the 2nd Commandment that states:

"Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image."

Considering that at God's behest, several graven images were made including gold plad cheribum and a bronze serpent and that these items were even used in aid of worship. No, they didn't become objects of worship, unless you count the serpent that was later worshipped then destroyed. Somehow the Israelites fully understood what God meant.

The key phrase is "unto thyself" which is to create graven objects and worship them as gods. This statue of the Blessed Virgin with the crucified Christ is a depiction of the prophesy concerning Mary: "And a sword shall pierce through your soul too." (Lk 2:35) The statue is certainly not an object of worship, and it's beyond silly to call it "sin."

Liberalism -- Ideas so good, they have to be mandated.