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I suppose it's realistic in the sense that Christ is depicted as a human as are adam and eve, instead of something else, but there is no presumption that christ
by iammisc 5y ago
I suppose it's realistic in the sense that Christ is depicted as a human as are adam and eve, instead of something else, but there is no presumption that christ actually looked like the way he was drawn.
- frutiger 5y agoBut by that logic the person seeing your church centuries later could assume there _was_ a dog there, it just wasn’t necessarily a Dalmatian?
- whatshisface 5y agoFortunately for believers, the interpretation of frescos forms the theological foundation of no major religion.
- iammisc 5y agoExcept if they were familiar with christian mythology they would not. You cannot view the image and then ascertain the mythology without reference to both written documents and traditional culture. You have to first study the documents and the existing culture and only then interpret the image. I am accusing the author of not having sufficiently studied the cultures traditions or it's written words.