Our queer world: true confessions. (Catholic Church and gays)

From: The Humanist | Date: September 1, 1993| Author: Tucker, Scott | Copyright information

The Church Militant deserves militant atheists, and during the Spanish Civil War statues of Christ faced anarchist firing squads. Iconoclasm of this kind is revenge therapy; it also confirms the power of icons. Even the tribes of Israel, warned by the prophets not to worship false idols, were allowed the Ark of the Covenant, on which God sat invisibly enthroned between two carved cherubim. Much of the book of Exodus consists of careful, elaborate instructions on craft and ritual, d...

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