Graven Images
[I'm bumping this February 2006 post of mine back up to the top of my blog because of its renewed relevance to the Koran burning uproar.]
Religious and culture clash caused by the Danish cartoons made me think about why Abrahamic monotheism prohibits images of its god and -- in its Islamic branch -- its principal prophet, Muhammad. Let's take it from the top, so to speak:
Exodus 20 (King James
