Old Tyrannia wrote:Hanafuridake wrote:
Because (iirc) Lower Nubia is a Roman Catholic and they're the most influential Christians in the country.
That's not a good reason to equate the RCC with all Christians. You could have clarified in your post that the bit about a foreign Roman head of state applied specifically to Catholics.
I understand why you'd want to ban us Protestants from building churches, but conflating us with papists is a step too far.
Fair enough, I should have, especially since you're a pretty strong voice here about the differences between Anglicans and Catholics.
That's an interpretation which relies purely on semantics. The commandment has always been understood to mean that the Jewish people were not permitted to worship other gods, but instead must only worship YHWH, and that interpretation is upheld by the Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Churches.
Even if we were to assume this verse allows some sort of henotheism, it is still incompatible with the worship of Buddhas and kami because they are superior to the Christian God and to worship them as inferior would be evil.