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To: mhking

Personally, I like how Allah's a no-show.


14 posted on 01/11/2005 7:05:17 AM PST by martin_fierro (</pith>)
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To: martin_fierro
"Personally, I like how Allah's a no-show."

I think it has a lot to do with the toy creators desire to not be dead.

17 posted on 01/11/2005 7:13:41 AM PST by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: martin_fierro

I don't. It shows too much deference to the Islamic "Allah has no image".

They didn't respect the Christian tradition of the undepictablity of the Father (God Almighty--I don't think they had the wit to have duplicated an Ancient of Days icon, actually a peculiar icon of Christ--and the use of a third-person version of the priest's doxology at the end of the Our Father makes it clear they mean the 'God Almighty' action figure to be the Father), so why should they respect the Muslims' undepictablity convention? (Though I am sort of grimly delighted that they got the caption on Jesus' one 'weapon' correct "Death-Killer Cross" echoes "trampling down Death by death" in the Troparion of Pascha.)


22 posted on 01/11/2005 7:18:42 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was)
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