The Creation of Adam

Today, I make a few small observations of Michelangelo's famous "Creation of Adam," as it appears on this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam#/media/File:Creaci%C3%B3n_de_Ad%C3%A1n_%28Miguel_%C3%81ngel%29.jpg

I couldn't get over how gnarly God's left hand looks.

Even stranger: Why is God wearing clothes instead of being completely naked? Was He ashamed of His nakedness? A nude God would have been shocking back in the day. Or would it have? Maybe if anyone had qualms about this, an endorsement by the Pope would have smoothed things over. Except of course the Muslims would have been livid at any depiction of God, clothed or unclothed.

How would Christians react to a nude God today? Maybe the evolution of Catholicism would have been quite different had this depiction of God been in the nude. Food for thought.

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Steven Searle, just another member of the

Virtual Samgha of the Lotus and

Former Candidate for US President (2008 & 2012)

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