Something to get cross about

It appears that German supermarket chain Lidl sells a range of authentic Greek produce including feta, meatballs and moussaka. The packaging for this range incorporates a photograph of the iconic blue-domed churches of Agios Spyridonas and Anastaseos in Oia, Santorini. Some marketing jobsworth with misdirected political correctness has assumed that the crosses atop the domes, a symbol of Christianity, might be in some way offensive and so photoshopped them out. Understandably Greek people are upset. Surely an equally Greek but less contentious image could have been chosen. The Acropolis for instance has been Pagan, Christian and Islamic during the course of its history and is currently a sectarian tourist attraction which perfectly demonstrates the destruction of war. It would have been a better choice all round I think.

Meanwhile the image above is a rather more traditional version of the icon of the crucifixion I showed you last week. I must apologise for not getting a better image than this one, but it will have to suffice. On the cross, Jesus. Standing to either side of him are what last week I had assumed to be a brace of Marys but I now realise that the one on the right is male and that will explain what I thought last week was a thoroughly modern haircut. Behind him, the city walls of Jerusalem. Within those walls a dome with a cross on top. Would that be a Greek Orthodox church then? While his body is still warm? Before he has even risen?

Question; Why are we less angry with an icon painter messing around with chronology than Lidl's marketing idiot?