He was saying you can’t deify (godize) images or worship them. First and foremost, the Roman Catholic, orthodox, traditional-Lutheran and traditional-Anglican understanding of “images, sculptures and paintings” is very different from those of most Protestants.įor Catholics, when God forbade the making of images, he wasn’t saying you can’t have images. THE REASON FOR DEMONIC SCULPTURES ON SOME CATHOLIC CHURCHES.ġ.

You don’t necessarily need to agree with me, but at least you’d understand the reason why demonic sculptures are on some ancient Catholic Churches. With this in mind, I plead that those of you whose anti-Catholicism erupts like a volcano, at the mere mention of the word: CATHOLIC, should keep calm and hear me out. In a way, this even helps you in countering their arguments at the very root.” You don’t necessarily need to agree with them on the long run, but you’d see things in their perspective. He said: “when you want to criticize a people. I picked up something from my lecturer that changed my life FOREVER. In my logic and philosophy class, back in undergrad…. The first two explains why Catholics allow paintings, images and sculptures in the first place. strangely the last two are the most important. So perhaps, I should say a thing or two about them. I don’t think they stem from anti-catholic prejudice that is so prevalent in Protestant circles…. But on a 2nd thought, I think the sentiments of those who are uncomfortable with those structures are LEGITIMATE this one time. In the past, when I was much more reactionary, I might have misinterpreted the intentions of those who have criticized the presence of gargoyles (demonic sculptures) on Catholic Church buildings. Some extremist Pentecostal websites said: “Catholics are to blame for the flames at Notre-Dame.

In the light of the burning of the Notre- Dame church, I can’t but share this enlightening piece by a fellow Nigerian Catholic…

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