3951. Even
fundamentalist Christian persons who attempt to take literally every little
thing in Scripture, still blandly overlook the Second Commandant, as if it had
simply become some how obsolete. They are happy to adorn their houses with
those strange brownish monochrome pictures of Jesus, or calendars with Mary
with a heart bleeding between her breasts, and they never stop to think that
because of this simple act of art appreciation they are doomed to burn in Hell
forever.
3952. Years ago
violent disputes and controversies erupted having to do with iconoclasm, but
what the ideas people fought over back then is little known or thought about
today, except perhaps in a Divinity School. But Iconoclasm, when properly
understood, is just as important now as a thousand years ago, or so Diogenes
Freen thought, and so he taught the students in his Bible Study Group.
3953. What was
Diogenes doing in Russia, if he was an Iconoclast? Moscow was the last place an
Iconoclast would want to set up shop, since the entire place is crawling with
religious pictures and many of them are though to possess miraculous characteristics.
That was the whole point; Diogenes wanted to begin his missionary work in the
most difficult place possible.
3954. He had a
vision of converting all of Russia and China to his own personal understanding
of the teachings of Christ. Sometimes he would wake up in the morning and think
to himself that he had now been in Russian for 15 years, and only partially
converted about 7 or 8 elderly women, and if he calculated from that, how long
his project was going to take he came up with a very unworkable amount of time.
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