https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliapugachevsky/jewel-encrusted-martyr-skeletons-thatll-blow-your-mind?utm_term=.clKQeglqDN#.yt5PVw5Ygo
The ambiguity (often blatant) of idolatry and visual representations were hilarious and fascinating. Those mummies of Christian martyrs decorated with rich Christian jewelry and symbols, and be put on display (on a church or something). At one glance it looked like it's a blasphemy for the dead (instead of just bury them or something). Looking another way it's a sick ironic humor.
Anyway, do Christians really believe literally on the 'resurrection of the body' thing? Like, the skeletons rise, get another flesh, or something like that?
>>1267178
that skeleton is right in giving you the finger
>>1267178
>Anyway, do Christians really believe literally on the 'resurrection of the body' thing? Like, the skeletons rise, get another flesh, or something like that?
Mostly yes, they don't tend to give it much thought tho because it's such a ridiculous doctrine, especially the whole "you get judged twice" part.
But these jeweled skeletons are from a very specific period of European history (primarily the calamitous 14th century), where death by plague was an everyday occurrence and images of death became omnipresent in art.
>>1267192
Sounds practical. The common people saw them as some kind of motivational art, then?
>>1267233
Societies that live close to death have a weird fascination with it, compare the Aztecs love of skulls in art and contrast it with the Egyptians who only ever showed the god Osiris as dead, since their religion was a strong refutation of death and their country was an abundant and prosperous place.
>>1267178
It's quite obvious he is being dressed for the skeleton war.
>>1267178
>buzzfeed
Wouldn't that be a sight though? The times come and he is ressurrected from death. Some poor fellow walks into the room and this skeleton with new flesh and all just steps down and hails him and asks where Jesus is hanging out these days.
>>1267178
I was really impressed by them when I saw them in Europe many years ago.
>>1267178
Some monasteries keep skulls of their deceased monks piled up in special storage rooms.
It's basically an interesting way of saying "memento mori". It shows that nothing in this world is eternal and that even the greatest, most pious of people have been reduced to skeletons and that the same fate awaits you eventually, no matter how much you've achieved in your life. Christianity has a certain fetish for death and adoration of it.
