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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 4589296, member: 83956&quot;]That’s an interesting suggestion about nudity and Christianity. But as you point out, that clothed Sol with Serapis was contemporaneous with nude Sol issues. And they were struck for Maximinus II— a proud pagan if there ever was one. I don’t know if he controlled the striking mints. </p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, when does the Church get prudish about the body? The late fifth-century Arian baptistry at Ravenna practically shows full frontal nudity at Christ’s baptism. It doesn’t look like Church officials were going around attaching fig leaves to statues just yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136433[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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