Idols reduce the divine to the measure of the human gaze
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Idols arrest our vision to nothing outside itself 0 0 1Then it must be true that...
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Idols reduce the divine to the measure of the human gaze 0 0 1Then it must be true that...
The AI image generated from the Shroud of Turin is not an icon 0 0 1Argument #ac9be96f 0 0 0
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Idols reduce the divine to the measure of the human gaze 0 0 1Then it must be true that...
The AI image generated using the Shroud of Turin is an idol 0 0 1Mentions
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