BASTARD! I had that yesterday, conquered it, and now you’ve brought it BACK!
Salt stain Madonna
What’s that flower you got ona
Could it be an algal growth from years gone by?
And did I hear you say
It was raining in town today,
To wash you to your mansion in the sky?
According to today’s Trib (sorry, no link), Mr. Gonzales is himself a very religious person who was outraged at what he saw as a clear violation of the 2nd Commandment, which says something about worshipping graven images. You know, such as a salt stain.
A salt stain is a crystallized image, not a graven one. Unless there’s something in Levticus* to prohibit it, I’d say it’s perfectly OK to fall to your knees and pray.
probably in the bit between not wearing poly-cotton and having a mildewed tent.
Unless I mistake the thrust of His remarks, He does not intend a distaste for a certain means of producing an image, but that the image recieves unwarranted attention. Of course, Leviticus could not meaningfully discuss how Jehovah might react to worshipful attentions toward His, ah…wife? consort? brood mare?
Perhaps that kind of family tensions accounts for the gaps in Jesus’ biography: he was in therapy.