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[/QUOTE]No one painted a portrait of Mary when she was alive. We do not know for a fact how she dressed, though I’m sure we can speculate.
dress. My question would be this: is that how Jesus dressed? I should think not.
You don’t understand due to your reading comprehension. A message can be communicated through tone and diction (English 100). And a message can be implied or explicitly stated (English 101). Essentially, the reader can infer messages from the written/typed statements of the writer.
So, as I stated previously several times, Fernand Braudel has pointed out what he calls “stable societies” have had little to no changes in their fashions since the time of Christ in some cases. Unlike the more liberally progressive societies of the West.
What ought be inferred from that is that that applies to both male and female fashions. As I even further stated the Muslims of the East seem to have adhered to the modest fashions of Christ and the Madonna more than Christians have.
It ought be inferred from that that I’m suggesting many male Muslims of the East don’t wear trousers (like I do) but dress more akin to Christ than I do or conservative Catholics.
Red herring and an attempt to distract from what can be observed as well as an attempt to avoid my questions (which is in part questions I ask myself but have no certain answer for)
I never implied nor explicitly stated women should dress the same as Mary. In fact I think I stated quite clearly that I have no problem with women dressing even more “sexy” than what the OP suggests she dresses like. Furthermore, I explicitly stated I don’t care for the burqa (which is more akin to the way the Holy Mother dressed - except the Holy Mother did not have her face covered).
What I correctly - and objectively - pointed out is that eventually all conservative Catholics adopt the liberal fashions of dress in the West. That conservative Catholic women wear pants proves this. And there is every reason to think that what the OP regards as “sexy” clothing fashion for women will in fact be enthusiastically adopted by conservative Catholics decades from now.
Personally, I’m fine with the fashion of Miami Beach and Rio de Janeiro. I don’t think it will fast track the wearer into sainthood (but I don’t think marriage will either, and I think celibacy is superior to sex and marital sex) but I don’t think it’s going to send the wearer into eternal damnation into hell either. But those are my thoughts and my opinion. That does not mean I think or speak for God Almighty.
Notice any similarity between the Muslim man and the Christian Jesus in dress?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/FDR_on_quincy.jpg/300px-FDR_on_quincy.jpg
Lots of Muslim men wear a lot less elaborate robes. I saw Muslim men in one piece white robes all the time when I visited the UAE.
Jesus.
Jesus is not presented in Catholic art wearing bluejeans and cowboy boots or Nike sneakers. Nor is he represented wearing a suit and tie or with a cigar in his mouth as he smiles standing in front of the New York Stock Exchange with his arms stretched out promoting capitalism and the free market.
I have no beef with trousers. What I don’t like in our contemporary times is the aesthetic look of certain fashions. It’s not necessarily an issue of it being sexy. And as I pointed out - with link - I wrote a couple Catholic Bishops giving the female Tango dresses as examples of the type of clothing I think Catholic women should wear (that is far away from suggesting women should dress like the Virgin Mary as you’ve implied I suggested).
