Comments on: The pagan business.

By: chrisgale

chrisgale — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 01:16:00 +0000

I deliberately said idols not ikons. I was keeping my tendencies to iconoclasm in check. Barely.

On M’s point, to me the best art is the naturalist early romantic paintings or the Dutch Masters: musically Bach. The parallel art of the Spanish School leaves me cold, and I like Baroque music but not their art.

The northern schools celebrated humanity, beauty — and were quite secular.

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By: Hidden and upside down. | - Dark Brightness

Hidden and upside down. | - Dark Brightness — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:43:31 +0000

[…] do: the second command is that we do not make graven images and bow down and worship them. Pagans find this crazy, and consider that without an object to worship we worship all material, all nature. To be fair, a […]

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By: Lena S.

Lena S. — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 18:15:00 +0000

Don’t you mean ‘icons’ rather than ‘idols’?

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By: M.

M. — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 21:31:00 +0000

A culture that rejects divine symbolism (idols) must worship mammon, like American culture.

Art reaches its zenith in divine symbolism. It reaches its lowest depths in the pop-culture of Western “civilization”.

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