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To: BenKenobi
Many Lutheran parishes have crucifixes (depending on where the original members immigrated from), most have stain glass windows with various Biblical and theology scenes. Though with the rising cost of such things, they are rare in many newer churches. We don't have many statues in the altar area, because of the general aversion to relics as worship of such, but that isn't universal either.

My Lutheran parish has more of that stuff than my wife's Catholic one. What is interesting is the latter is by choice. For a while, they only had the processional crucifix, and only one statue in the corner.

75 posted on 12/17/2010 9:44:24 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum

While my Mennonite church had just the Cross and the altar in a spare room.

There’s quite a bit of variance in it, isn’t it? My tastes trend more towards the spare than the ornate. My current parish though is very beautiful.


79 posted on 12/17/2010 9:51:32 AM PST by BenKenobi
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