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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (105183)	5/27/2005 9:15:09 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The Piss Christ thing is interesting in that there is nothing overtly objectionable about the work itself, but rather the artist's claims about the work. For all the viewer knows it is a photo of a cross immersed in lemonade, but by naming it Piss Christ and claiming it was his own urine the artist made it into a big deal. But who is to say if it was really urine or lemonade? The necessity people feel to defend God is strange, given that God is omnipotent and omniscient. You would think that God is perfectly capable of defending itself. It must spring from a desire for self-preservation given that in the old testament God lays waste to entire cities at a time, and in the new testament Jesus promises to judge entire cities at a time ... they must fear getting caught in the hail of brimstone if God decides to annihilate the photograph and everything around it.