On 22/02/2008, Fred Bauder
<fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
> On 22/02/2008, Rich Holton
<richholton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are any of the depictions based on actual likenesses? Or even on a
>> detailed
>> description of the man? If not, then the depictions are not
>> educational with
>> respect to the man, on with respect to how the man has been
depicted.
By this point you should be familiar with the Charlemagne counter
argument. Dito Macbeth of Scotland.
Images of those men are simply false, they do not give form to the
sacred
as an image of Muhammad does.
Muhammad is sacred? Doesn't that rather run into the do not worship
prohibition? You also appear to be rejecting the divine right of kings
thing.
Still if you want a more exact equiv
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster#Place
Removing information we know to be false is not
censorship.
We don't pretend the image is historically accurate.