If you think paintings of Jesus washing the feet of disciples and riding a donkey into Jerusalem is mockery, I can’t fathom your thinking at all.
If you regard juxtaposing paintings of hauteur and arrogance to those that were deliberately and strikingly humble by comparison was a mockery of His Church, your thinking is unfathomable yet again.
You wrote:
“If you think paintings of Jesus washing the feet of disciples and riding a donkey into Jerusalem is mockery, I can’t fathom your thinking at all.”
Maybe you can’t fathom that because that is not a truthful telling of what you yourself said. Here is how you originally posted the description:
“There was a picture of a crowned Pope, who just happened to resemble the current Pope, sitting on his throne, with Cardinals prostrating themselves at his feet. And right next to it a picture of Jesus, washing his disciples’ feet. There was a picture of a richly clad and bejeweled Pope being helped into the saddle of a magnificent warhorse. And right next to it a painting of Jesus, dressed in a threadbare robe, riding a donkey into Jerusalem.”
So, yes, I think what you described was mockery. It has nothing to do with the paintings of Christ and everything to do with what was described.
“If you regard juxtaposing paintings of hauteur and arrogance to those that were deliberately and strikingly humble by comparison was a mockery of His Church, your thinking is unfathomable yet again.”
You seem to be missing the point. Where are these paintings NOW? How do you know they ever existed? I ask for the following reasons: 1) The Bethlehem Chapel became a Jesuit chapel in the 17th century. You probably were not aware of that, 2) It was demolished in the 18th century after the Jesuits were disbanded. 3) It was rebuilt starting in the 1950s if I recall correctly.
Now, where are the paintings? If the paintings were original to the chapel, then they were created for no other reason than to be used as propaganda against the Church by the heretic Jan Hus. If the paintings were created in the 1950s (which obviously isn’t the case) then they would REALLY be more obvious examples of propaganda.
Again, what I posted was about glorifying God. What you posted and are talking about is mere Protestant propaganda designed to attack and mock the Church.