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Originally Posted by pbradley
^ that's very Catholic
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really? I would think that romish christianity used the devil as its cop-out mechanism like most christians.. in the Tewahedo they blame demons and bad spirits on everything, in fact traditional Ethiopian christianity ascribes that there are no such things as good and bad people, just good and bad spirits (ie, saints/angels and demons/duppies) who influence the decisions and actions of human beings.. I personally do not believe this, I am ultra-Christian, if Jesus Christ is God in the flesh, and God died on the Cross to bind any kind of devil, then there are no longer any devils to plague humanity. My Christology says that since Christ came, we are responsible for ourselves and our own decisions, we have no one to blame for our mistakes but ourselves..
ahh, caravaggio.. it took me twenty minutes to find this painting but it was well worth it.. I love renaissance christian art, it is so much more expressive than iconography, a kind of non-religious religiosity, using religious themes to express more universal human emotions..
(and to keep on topic, here is some more of that fantastic Raphael Saadiq performance
Love that Girl