{"id":7852,"date":"2013-10-03T00:03:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T07:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=7852"},"modified":"2013-10-03T00:03:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T07:03:36","slug":"la-alhambra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2013\/10\/03\/la-alhambra\/","title":{"rendered":"La Alhambra"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blast-of-Light-Alhambra\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s one of my 300 photos, and would have been a discard, but for what it suggests (in light of my last blog). For a few others, see Facebook here<\/a>.<\/h6>\n

We’ve been to La Alhambra. It’s another of the few very great places I’ve wanted to see while I still have eyes in my head.<\/p>\n

The Alhambra was built a thousand years ago by Muslims as they moved ever westward and northward. Spain, as you’ll remember, is just a large stepping stone* from Morocco where Mohammad’s minions settled without resistance. Here, however, there was a strong difference of opinion, with Ferdinand and Isabella having final say. But this was not to be a history lesson.<\/p>\n

\"Anne-Alhambra-115\"<\/a><\/h6>\n
Anne (in God’s image)<\/h6>\n

It could be a lesson is architecture, however, and lovely landscaping, swirling calligraphy, and geometric pattern everywhere. Theirs was a pursuit of artforms not<\/em> found in nature. But their aesthetic sense would be welcome in Eden, and, were it possible, add to it.<\/p>\n

Nor does one even miss the absence of human form in the art. Their teaching prevents artfully representing humanity at all because that would be a blasphemy, man being created in God’s image.<\/p>\n

Seems they got part of that right.<\/p>\n

But here’s one not in the Koran: The body is for the Lord and the Lord is for the body.<\/em>**<\/p>\n

That’s a deeper truth than the other, and once again we’re dealing here with things invisible. And more freeing.<\/p>\n

As Scripture says in the same context: All things are permissible to me<\/em>, which includes, by the way, painting a portrait if I want to. Or anything else.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying it’s worth fighting a war over; enough of that has happened in the past and seems to continue. And I’m not saying the Islamic approach hasn’t created some extraordinary art. To the contrary.<\/p>\n

I’m just saying I’m free, and so are you.<\/p>\n

Let’s drink to that.<\/p>\n

(Oops, Koran says can’t do that either. Sorry.)
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\n* \u00a0 \u00a0 Gibraltar
\n<\/span>** \u00a01 Cor. 10:12-20<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alhambra, one of the greatest for the eyes (of which there’s no end of seeing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7852"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7878,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7852\/revisions\/7878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}