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Maybe they were trying for a stagecoach, and didn't have the clip art?
You might as well ask why the art for the "Baha'i" section uses eight-pointed stars, instead of nine.
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O.K. But see, the point is is that at least in the case of the 8 pointed star, you know where he was coming from with it--he just didn't quite get the appropriate symbol. My question is, why the wheelbarrow? If he was trying to evoke the pioneer call of faith to the desert, then he probably should have used a covered wagon or something more pioneer-y. So, I was wondering if maybe the wheelbarrow was some never before mentioned Mormon symbol. If it's not, is there a particular symbol that Mormons associate with Mormonism? If there's not, it's kind of wierd that he chose the wheelbarrow, when it seems like there are better symbols out there for Mormonism--a soggy diaper, say.
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Oh. I totally misread your comments. Sorry! I'll be editing my stupid comments now. I'm so embarassed.
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Actually, the picture for the Judaism section is a bit odd as well. The Hebrew letters across the sky are odd but understandable. But is that spiky mountain supposed to be any particular mountain? And is that supposed to be a pillar of fire in the foreground? Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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But the "Age of Reason" section is missing some pretty key people. Where's Nietzche? Hell, where's Freud? And several other people I'm forgetting to mention.
And why is Paine under there? I'll be sure to browse more thoroughly next time around -- I've been looking for something like this for a long time -- but as I recall from reading Common Sense, Paine cited God's Will several times as justification for breaking away from the British. Is he an atheist or agnostic?
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quote:The prophet Micaiah, as he is called, II Chron. xviii, 18-21, tells another blasphemous story of God. "I saw," says he, "the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the hosts of Heaven standing on His right hand and on His left. And the Lord said, who shall entice Ahab, King of Israel, to go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead? And one spoke after this manner, and another after that manner.
"Then there came out a spirit [Micaiah does not tell us where he came from] and stood before the Lord [what an impudent fellow this spirit was] and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, wherewith? And he said, I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail; go out, and do even so."
We often hear of a gang of thieves plotting to rob and murder a man, and laying a plan to entice him out that they may execute their design, and we always feel shocked at the wickedness of such wretches; but what must we think of a book that describes the Almighty acting in the same manner, and laying plans in heaven to entrap and ruin mankind? Our ideas of His justice and goodness forbid us to believe such stories, and therefore we say that a lying spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.
-Paine, Biblical Blasphemy
Oh. Heh. Just poked through that quickly. Interesting.
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Paine, if I correctly understand him, was an extreme deist. The God he believed in was inactive enough that for the most part, He might as well not have existed. Nonetheless Paine considered this God a creator and a model for virtue. I think. *ponders going to look stuff up*
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