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You make a good point about questioning assumptions

Submitted by casseia on Fri, 2007-06-15 02:44.

which I tend to be ready and willing to do most of the time. And I wasn't implying that Keenan should not use it as his avatar, actually.

As far as the Star of David being a symbol of Judaism, I think it IS, regardless of Zionist appropriation. That is, when I think back to eighth grade and my friends with their little gold stars, I don't think they were wearing them to emblemize their Zionist sympathies. For whatever reason, by the second part of the 20th century in the US, the Star of David was a symbol of Jewishness.

As for the "graven images" prohibition, I always assumed that worked like the Muslim prohibition on representative images, which led to all the beautiful abstract patterns in rugs. That is, golden calves = not okay, geometric figures = okay.

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