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One thing I don't like about the depiction of angels and statues is they are all based on a certain time frame. In particular when metal armor and swords were the leading military weapons. By depicting them the same now we are depicting them as a joke. They should be depicted with M-16s, rocket launchers, tanks, aircraft, intelligence weapons etc.
I think this plays into why they shouldn't have been depicted at all. Makes me question the time frame in which they were.
Michael looks absolutely NOTHING like this.
This whole "winged human" angel bullshit is so gay, it needs to stop. Real angels are eldritch abominations. Nowhere in the Bible are any angels described like this. The closest thing to a winged human angelic being would be a cherub, and even that's not exactly right.
They're all gigantic things made up of way too many eyes, wheels, fire, lots of fucking wings, etc.. There's a reason the first thing that angels always say when they came to mortals is "Be not afraid"- it's because any sane person who laid eyes upon one of them would be VERY afraid.
Never thought of it that way, you have a point, I think that we hang on to the chivalry that we attribute to the time of swords and armor, so there is that but I like your point nonetheless.
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