I never understood the Western fear of idolatry. Now banning the worship of money or family or a country or a leader, those things I understand, but banning rituals that involve statues is silly. Everyone knows it is just a statue, not a god or something. The Catholics and the Buddhists get it about right -- they are icons, not idols -- a huge difference. I also don't understand why depictions are prohibited but geometric figures are not. Who is to say that God isn't a triangle?
The world has always had assassins and terrorists and will always have them. It is a mental phenomenon I don't pretend to understand, except I think it involves a huge ego combined with an understanding that most of us don't matter in the world. Among religions, many Muslims demonstrate a religious ego that is astounding if it weren't such a stupid set of beliefs.
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