>>10846990This tired argument again.
>The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe", I'd have been lying!The complex symbols of Catholic (and even moreso with Orthodox) iconography is not worshipped in itself, but revered as a way to connect with God. You do not appreciate the ink or the canvas, but the concepts they evoke.