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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (104997)5/25/2005 2:34:08 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I don't know what "Piss Christ" meant to the artist who created it, but considering that most of the world is not Christian and that the Catholic Church in America, Canada and Ireland at least is dealing with a child sex abuse crisis that is so massive it is turning Catholics from their faith and causing some archdioceses to declare bankruptcy to pay all the legal judgments against them, I for one could certainly appreciate the artistic statement made by a crucifix submerged in urine.

On a broader basis, organized religion and the wars it has caused have caused untold agony on the earth, and millions of violent deaths, at the least. What about the Inquisition? I went to a museum exhibit of torture devices used by the Church during the Inquisition that made my husband, who is pretty tough, want to vomit. Right now the influence of the Catholic Church in the third world causes untold suffering and slow death because of their stance against condoms.

To assert that religion, or Christianity, is in whole or part a positive influence on individuals or humanity at large is certainly debatable. Artists like to use art to make statements like this. To be provocative, to make people think! More power to them.
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