3959. Diogenes
rejected all of the ways religions aggrandize their ideas using art and
architecture. He began to ask himself, at an early age, what is the purpose of
huge buildings and millions of painted images in the dissemination of religious
ideas, and it seemed to him that it all had no purpose what-so-ever.
3960. What
Diogenes was doing was ripping the shell from off of the back of the turtle.
The turtle is defenseless without its shell, and perhaps religion is of no use
without its paintings, its sculpture, and its architecture.
3961. I
apologize for the rather confused and convoluted presentation of Diogenes
Freens ideas, and I realize my attempt falls short of being understandable, but
I am going to put the blame entirely on Diogenes himself. His ideas were
half-baked and incomplete, and so, am I to be held accountable if I am unable
to elucidate them clearly or in any satisfactory way?
3962. Let me
just say this, Diogenes hated icons, and so he was an Iconoclast. He hated
church ceremony, vestments, architecture and all of those things, as an extension of his
Iconoclasm.
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