What makes these situations so egregious in my mind is the context.

If you are in a worship service during which you have a drama where someone depicts God you have a depiction of what you are worshiping during worship. This has got to breach the 2nd commandment.

While I do not agree with depictions of God outside worship it is at least possible to come up with some sort of weak defence in such situations, in worship there can be no accomodation for such direct idolitary.

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Mike
London City Presbyterian Church
London
England

"Surely, we wish to be orthodox, but we must first learn what real orthodoxy is. Surely, we wish to be progressive, but we must first have a basis to progress from."