jugoth opened this issue on Dec 13, 2006 ยท 95 posts
Phantast posted Wed, 27 December 2006 at 5:21 PM
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There is no Judaeo-Christian Ten Commandments. There is a Jewish interpretation, and multiple Christian interpretations. (Heck, even how they are numbered varies.) The Jewish interpretation of the 2nd Commandment links the graven image clause with the prohibition against other gods. (For Jews, the first commandment is "I the LORD am your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage".)
I'm well aware of these details, which are irrelevant to my point, which is that there were, historically, people who considered themselves to be Christian and who believed that all pictures were wicked (iconoclasts), just as there have been Muslims with the same idea. And of course, those who interpret the Scriptures differently.
Hence, and this is the main gist, you cannot argue in flat terms that Islam or Christianity bans all images. It depends on the interpretation, which has varied historically.