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Is God gay rule? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

He made angels unsexy so wouldn’t be distracted by them…!?

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[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

Isn't the top-left image Cupid (i.e. a god)?

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Nah, that's a generic cherub. Reasonable question because both are depicted as children.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 5 months ago

That's a putto, which has intersection with depictions of Cupid and cherubim. Biblically accurate cherubim look like this:

Proginoskes, a cherubim in A Wind In The Door by Madeleine L'Engle was quite annoyed that cherubs were depicted as putti.

Eros is young and boyish, but regarded as adult, and Apollo (his rival in Olympian archery competitions) likes to mock him for looking childlike.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Oops, I was confused as well!

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