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My question is, is the 'Christian' car actually a Christian car?
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I doubt any car could be a Christian car, due to the fact that, according to you, it should somehow actually have a refference to Jesus, the resurrection or other Christian themes you mentioned - but I interpret this to be un- (or even anti-) Christian thing to have on a car. Christianity requires, as a first commandment, to love the Lord "And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength" Mark 12-30
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And this is what Tolkien actually does; the work reffers, first and foremost, to the grace of the One, and this is more Christian than whatever "idolatry of other Christian movites" he could have put.
To continue your analogy with "hypothetical real life", what if Tolkien, the carpenter
, set out to make an altar (put whatever other religious object here, if this doesn't come your way), but what he ends up with you consider to be a chair; useful for you to read a book in, to enjoy landscape in, to have a conversation in it, because this is what it is for you... Aren't you in fact missing the point? Isn't it that in this case, your are to say that "hey, go to that Tolkien gentleman, he is a great carpenter, he thinks he makes altars, although he may not realise he makes chairs?"