TCS Daily: The New Iconoclasts TCS Daily: The New Iconoclasts

dictionary.reference.com defines an iconoclast as:
1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions.
2. One who destroys sacred religious images.

The later definition is used in a TCS Daily article entitled: "The New Iconoclasts". It suggests that the Danish cartoonist who drew all those cartoons of Mohammed, et al., was an iconoclast, as traditionally defined: one who destroyes sacred religious images.

While I agree with him, I am somewhat conflicted, having been raised Presbyterian, which has been traditionally iconclastic. Indeed, I can remember the furor when my church acquired a new Communion table with the image from Da Vinci's "Last Supper" carved on its face. This was a depiction of Jesus and his twelve desciples, and, as such, was unacceptable to many for similar reasons to those espoused by Jews and Moslems in the area of religious icons. Indeed, to this day, the two things that discomfort me the most about Roman Catholic services are the icons and the asking for intercession by Saints, neither of which are really sancted in Scripture.