The greatest evil to befall the Coptic Orthodox church is not the Melitan Schism nor the the scourge of the Arian and Nestorian heresies nor is it the persecutions after the Chalcedonian Schism nor is it even the Islamic invasion and conquest of Egypt and all the woes that have befallen since. Also the evil of the secularism of the the modern day and the happy clappy christian syncretism that is slowly creeping in due to ignorance of God’s people both pale in comparison to this evil inflicted upon the Coptic Orthodox church.
This evil is PHOTOSHOP!!! How many more pious atrocities must the faithful Copt endure. We were silent when St. Mary floating over a field of flowers was made. We were silent when saint icon cut and paste group photos were created. We were silent when St. George on a rainbow background with a Jesus head shooting laser beams from it floats above him (I actually have said picture). No more will we hold our tongue saying to ourselves “aesthetic tastes are relative and some people may like them and be edified by them”. Who can be edified by a tote back with a light saber wielding Philopater Mercurius with day-glo lightening shooting out of him iron-on on it?! How long O Lord will the true iconodule Copt suffer? If the iconoclasts still lived they would mock us to scorn.
Rise up and destroy these images which are idols to bad taste. If you see your brother create such images smash his laptop lest he fall deeper into his sin. Or at the very least have an intervention with a graphic designer not educated in the middle east. Stop this cancer before more pious atrocities, these hate crimes against aesthetics, are inflicted by the faithful. Stop it now before these same people learn of Adobe After Effect then even our movies (as bad as they are will become worse)
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