painted by Michelangelo 'and' his helpers.
A point that can be made here:
"Where Dogma of the past Roman gods meets the idea of monotheism(a meeting of dogmatic pagan gods of the past and the dogmatic laws of their present church, in which the Renaissance relieved its people of eventually), and in this grandiose building we find a wall of Philosophers, in which the 'artist' Michelangelo painted 'himself' into.
Philosophy is the pre-cursor to modern science, so where is our 'Sistine Chapel' to built upon today? and how shall we paint it, sculpt it??...an important question we must ask ourselves, in order to survive another 500 years as a civil society.
A society that allows us the freedoms to believe in what they believed and also deny what we wish? Collectively, we can at least enjoy the beauty that still survives today, and at the same tine choose what draws us in individually.
For we have the civilized law(equality), which must stay intact; a 'wall of free thought/will' fortified to defend us, no matter the case or charges. It's through the separation of church/state, that we each have the right to an equal influence, an ability of projecting our individual thoughts onto church/state itself.
This vital 'separation' is still valid, so long as one person isn't shoved in a closet for the sake of the other...or idea, artwork, or country! A jury listens to all arguments before settling on its decision; the 'Sistine Chapel' is a great model for this, how the ideas of today can survive well into the future; where we the people still are the jury, so let us be wise on judgement I say.
link to reference for photo above:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~ampeck/sistine...
