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So do you think that when Muslims decided that they shouldn't depict Mohammad in their art, it was actually a prescient warning about tacky AI art bullshit? They just wanted to avoid this nonsense in the future?
Midjourney is the demiurge
i think iconoclasm does genuinely emerge from an instinct that shitass art of holy thing would be bad, but one didn't need AI to reach the conclusion art can be cringe
Yeah, it's probably far more likely they saw all the weird ideas Christians had about depicting the baby Jesus with an adult's face and just decided to opt out.
Don't you dare insult minature grown man baby Jesus! I'll have you know the Jesus Homonculus is the only canonical way to portray Infant Jesus and anyone who disagrees is a heretic.
monkey baby jesusman is the next Budweiser commercial
In ancient times, if you were conquered by a foreign army, your statues and graven images could just be re-labelled as their God(s), whereas if you had an iconoclastic tradition based in the written word, it was much harder to destroy your traditions.
Depictions of Jesus aren’t really encouraged by Christianity either, technically. Catholics will claim they only use it to “aid” their worship lol. But tell them you don’t want any drawings or figures of Jesus or other biblical things in your home because you’re a traditionalist and watch them call you disrespectful