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2021-12-25 -Great Cultural Revolution

A Painting Of George Floyd Roils Catholic University

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-25 14:26|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 It’s not a Black Jesus that ought to be objectionable — people around the world have painted Christian religious figures, including Jesus, looking loke themselves (see here) — but sanctifying Mr. Floyd shows either deliberate insult or a depth of ignorance about the man that has to be deliberate. Giving his face to one of the thieves hung on crosses alongside the crucified Jesus would work, or perhaps a forgiveness/grace motif, but this is a BLM, Inc. approach by both the artist and the university. Especially as one would assume a Catholic university would have art historians on staff to explain the theological error.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-12-25 15:13|| 2021-12-25 15:13|| Front Page Top

#2 He was a POS, as are the "Catholic ~~Theologians~~" who subvert 2000 years of justice for false moral superiority. I'm a Catholic and I spit on their judgement...with all due respect

Posted by Frank G 2021-12-25 15:41|| 2021-12-25 15:41|| Front Page Top

#3 If you want to destroy a civilization turn it against itself with lies, partial truth and insults that trigger defending deeply held beliefs.
Marxist Revolutionary Tactcs by those who infest pillar’s of our society and pervert them. Sounds like the skills of a community organizer doesn’t it?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-12-25 16:28|| 2021-12-25 16:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Giving his face to one of the thieves hung on crosses alongside the crucified Jesus would work

Or Barabbas: A violent criminal hailed by influential fools as a political martyr. And we're the ones being crucified as a result.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-25 16:35|| 2021-12-25 16:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Guilt junkies are pathetic.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-25 16:55|| 2021-12-25 16:55|| Front Page Top

#6 A new phase: they're just humiliating us now.

But we've been here before -- they're just following in the Bolsheviks' footsteps, mimicking their full-fledged "assault on religion."

Here's the great historian Richard Pipes describing Lenin's use of the Komsomol youth organization to mock and discredit religion -- all faiths -- with obscene parodies such as the "Komsomol Christmas" staged in all the major cities on (interestingly) 6 January 1923. Pipes:

Such spectacles, as well as the posters and cartoons that accompanied them, by violating ingrained taboos in a deliberately shocking and vulgar manner, produced an effect not unlike that of pr0nography... .

While the Communist press reported that such productions drew large and enthusiastic crowds, the reality was different. Witness G.P. Fedotov wrote that

"The population, and not only the faithful, worked upon this hideous carnival with dumb horror. Nearly everyone tried to turn off the road when it met the shocking procession. I may certify as a witness of the Moscow [anti-religious] carnival, that there was not a drop of popular pleasure in it. The parade moved on empty streets and its attempt at creating laughter or provocation were met with doll silence and part of the occasional witnesses."

p. 358, Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime, ch. 7, "The Assault on Religion"

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-25 17:18|| 2021-12-25 17:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Just as all the cops are criminals /
And all the sinners, saints...

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-25 17:25|| 2021-12-25 17:25|| Front Page Top

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