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Mort_Alz
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Hi.
I often read articles from a certain “cracked.com” for its occasionally clever and always sarcastic posts.
Particularly, I was reading a very interesting article about “old school robots.” It was about all of these very elaborate and impressive robots made in the medieval ages.
I was entertained until I came across one known as “the Rood of Grace.” This robot was a statue of Jesus that would move in all kinds of interesting ways: giving sad looks when a poor donation was given, etc.
That would be good and well if it was a well understood joke, but it wasn’t. I realize that this article is from a source that is hardly reliable, but according to it, it was passed off by “the Church” as being a miracle, thereby deceiving tons of faithful and (perhaps) tempting them to idolatria
Here is the original article. The part about the Rood of grace is towards the bottom.
A fair warning: the articles aren’t always exactly “clean.”
cracked.com/article_19395_the-7-creepiest-old-school-robots.html
Here is another source about mechanized statues in the Medieval Church
arcade.stanford.edu/journals/rofl/articles/machines-garden-by-jessica-riskin
And here’s a good ol’ trustworthy Wikipedia article on the Rood of Grace
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rood_of_Grace
I posted this in social justice because it appears to be an outright deception by the Church for control reasons. Now, I also realize that “the Church” could’ve just been some naughty clergy and not an imposition from the higher-ups such as the Pope approving it of a miracle, and I also realize that the whole thing could just be bogus. But the implications of what would happen if higherup clergy actually DID try to pass this off as a miracle, then what are the implications for approving of Marian apparitions such as Our Lady of Guadalupe, etc.?
Any thoughts? Opinions? More research? Apologetics?
I often read articles from a certain “cracked.com” for its occasionally clever and always sarcastic posts.
Particularly, I was reading a very interesting article about “old school robots.” It was about all of these very elaborate and impressive robots made in the medieval ages.
I was entertained until I came across one known as “the Rood of Grace.” This robot was a statue of Jesus that would move in all kinds of interesting ways: giving sad looks when a poor donation was given, etc.
That would be good and well if it was a well understood joke, but it wasn’t. I realize that this article is from a source that is hardly reliable, but according to it, it was passed off by “the Church” as being a miracle, thereby deceiving tons of faithful and (perhaps) tempting them to idolatria
Here is the original article. The part about the Rood of grace is towards the bottom.
A fair warning: the articles aren’t always exactly “clean.”
cracked.com/article_19395_the-7-creepiest-old-school-robots.html
Here is another source about mechanized statues in the Medieval Church
arcade.stanford.edu/journals/rofl/articles/machines-garden-by-jessica-riskin
And here’s a good ol’ trustworthy Wikipedia article on the Rood of Grace
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rood_of_Grace
I posted this in social justice because it appears to be an outright deception by the Church for control reasons. Now, I also realize that “the Church” could’ve just been some naughty clergy and not an imposition from the higher-ups such as the Pope approving it of a miracle, and I also realize that the whole thing could just be bogus. But the implications of what would happen if higherup clergy actually DID try to pass this off as a miracle, then what are the implications for approving of Marian apparitions such as Our Lady of Guadalupe, etc.?
Any thoughts? Opinions? More research? Apologetics?