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Originally Posted by Coffee99
Actually, to the Greeks, they are pictures of saints. They aren't considered a deity.
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The icons of the Eastern Church, from whence we get the word "icon," were seen as a representation of the "original." Thus when an icon of Christ was presented, all those assembled would bow as though Christ Himself had entered the room. Theologically, the idea was that the veneration would "pass over" the icon and rise to that which the icon represented.
So to the outside observer it would probably appear that the people were venerating the image or the icon, but to those more closely involved, the veneration went straight to the spiritual archetype, in this case Christ Himself.
Computer icons have the same "theology." They are not computer programs themselves, but the iconic representation of the underlying computer program. For example, when BOOMM clicks on the blue "e" on his desktop to open his favorite web browser- he doesn't open a graphics editing program displaying that same blue "e."
Rather, BOOMM's beloved Internet Exploder opens up and takes him across that great realm of the imagination known as the Internet. Or perhaps it just displays a 404 Page Cannot Be Found Error.
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