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Consider Paul Simon’s first color camera in ‘Kodachrome’, upon using it, he found that his mind now recorded his memories in color, rather than preciously in black and whote. The language (the interface and symbol) of memories was attached to the appearance of photos, because they are our tangible images of the past. In this way, our understanding of anything is tied to a series of associations and symbols we relate to the subject. Consider the myriad of Christian images of cartoon Gods or vainglorious murals and the entire world history of God and Christ’s images ranging from mastercraft to janky - every single one carries a unique and arbitrary personal characteristic of its artist that is separate from the pure expression of God Himself as we know His presence in the Scripture and Church. Its all a distraction at best and most commonly a real heresy. Here, even the most divine rendering, as accurate as it could possibly be to the faceless and ineffable, can only ever be a filter. What once was divine and paramount to our existential understanding and our physical place in the universe, is now sitting there plainly with angry or loving eyes, looking like Zeus or some more clever but failing attempt at divine mystery. We are now talking to not just a window, but to an invariably dirty and unnecessary window. We are no longer knowing to God as the transcendental unifying force felt in empty hallowed halls or in the words of a spiritual mentor, we no longer look east and pray in His invisible direction. Instead, our entire notion and symbol of God becomes one of many arbitrary and inferior renderings. You come to worship a wall, not for the God who lives in it, but for the God that is drawn on it, who is no God Himself. We are permanently alienated from the true spirit by a visual mind virus
Does that make sense?
