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Re: CHAT: Religions (was: Visible planets)

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Saturday, November 15, 2003, 19:24
--- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:

> > Physically, one > >lifts up the icon and kisses it. > > Are they in the habit of lifting up the icons > where you have gone?
Yes. Well, apparently! They weren't very large.
> I've > never seen anyone lift up the icons, except > under very rare > circumstances. Russians make a poklon (cross > youself and bow, touching > your hand to the floor) twice, kiss the icon, > then make another poklon.
Nothing that complex that I saw.
> > Veneration seems > >to be particular to Eastern churches; it's not > >common at all in RC churches, and I bet would > >boggle your average Protestant. > > It made me uncomfortable as a protestant.
I'll bet! ;) Smacks of idolatry or Marianism and other works of Satan (according to at least one televangelist I heard). Padraic. ===== la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .