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sandworm101 | karma 32703 | avg karma 3.4 · 2022-10-08 11:01:33

I grew up overseas. All the hospitals were technically "islamic" but the great thing about that was zero religeous paintings. There were no crosses hanging over beds, but neither was any other image. Christians felt as welcomed as anyone else. The architecture and decoration was agnostic. Even the attached mosque was basically just a square room pointing in a strange direction, and was open to all peoples.

vidanay | karma 3521 | avg karma 3.39 · 2022-10-08 12:37:19

Isn't that a direct result of the Islamic belief that man made art is offensive to God? The same reason mosques are decorated with geometric patterns and not "art".

inglor_cz | karma 13309 | avg karma 2.8 · 2022-10-08 14:33:26

I think the prohibition is against depicting living things.

elgenie | karma 1833 | avg karma 4.77 · 2022-10-08 16:42:22

That’s just Islamic aniconism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam

Islamic religious art na look agnostic … if you don’t know what you’re looking at.

Of course, without context Christian religious art is a lot of plus signs, moms with babies, winged babies, weird bonnets, and torture porn.

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