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Mt19_26
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This is an unbelievable statement. Art above Jesus. You’re saying if it’s offensive the Jesus…so what, deal with it.
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Mt19_26
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No need to feel “sorry” for us. We simply disagree with you, feel you are wrong, and don’t buy your arguments or judgment telling us we are all wrong.sorry folks, you’re all wrong on this if you side with suppressing artistic expression in the name of not offending sensibilities.
furthermore, aside from the articles description, has anyone actually seen the ‘offensive’ art? if you haven’t, are you simply saddling up on the bandwagon?
regardless if you don’t like or are offended by any artwork, in a nutshell… tough.
just like life, not all art is beautiful… to shut it down at the first inkling of offending someone… thats a free society that is no longer free.
So, I guess that its a free for all with no moral standards eh? Pornography for all, if you are offended tough. Television shows degrading women and minorities in the name of art, if you are offended tough. Can I display pictures equating certain minorities to monkeys? If they are offended tough!
The fact is, there are moral standards, I don’t believe in relativism. We ARE allowed to demonstrate and protest against public displays such as this. We can protest against abortion clinics, we can protest against perceived injustice.
And no, the “taliban” is not alive and well… for we don’t advocate smashing people over the head and destruction as a means to accomplish an end. We wish to do such things in a legal way and demonstrate.
Freedom has limits and those limits can be crossed. Free speech has limits, free expression has limits. You will learn this in any basic philosophy course. My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.
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James_2_24
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No need to feel “sorry” for us. We simply disagree with you, feel you are wrong, and don’t buy your arguments or judgment telling us we are all wrong.sorry folks, you’re all wrong on this if you side with suppressing artistic expression in the name of not offending sensibilities.
furthermore, aside from the articles description, has anyone actually seen the ‘offensive’ art? if you haven’t, are you simply saddling up on the bandwagon?
regardless if you don’t like or are offended by any artwork, in a nutshell… tough.
just like life, not all art is beautiful… to shut it down at the first inkling of offending someone… thats a free society that is no longer free.
So, I guess that its a free for all with no moral standards eh? Pornography for all, if you are offended tough. Television shows degrading women and minorities in the name of art, if you are offended tough. Can I display pictures equating certain minorities to monkeys? If they are offended tough!
The fact is, there are moral standards, I don’t believe in relativism. We ARE allowed to demonstrate and protest against public displays such as this. We can protest against abortion clinics, we can protest against perceived injustice.
And no, the “taliban” is not alive and well… for we don’t advocate smashing people over the head and destruction as a means to accomplish an end. We wish to do such things in a legal way and demonstrate.
Freedom has limits and those limits can be crossed. Free speech has limits, free expression has limits. You will learn this in any basic philosophy course. My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.
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James_2_24
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Whose definition of a “Free Society” are you using? If you read throughout American History – freedom, until recently, never meant a free for all. It has always been understood that freedom can be abused. And abuse came with consequences.. to shut it down at the first inkling of offending someone… thats a free society that is no longer free.
Such filth has not been allowed on such a level until the liberalization of America’s values in the 60s and thereafter. Such things would have been CENSURED and rightly so.
There is such a thing as a balance of liberty and license.
The abortionists use the same argument as you do. “If you don’t allow me to do this, then this is not a free society.”
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Last link didn’t work, here is another to the artwork of a woman, hands bond hanging from a noose.
I remember at Middlebury College in the 80’s when a frat group hung a woman figure out a window that was covered with red paint(blood). The school apologized. I believe Brown University also had a similar incident. They too apoligized.
keeneequinox.com/
I remember at Middlebury College in the 80’s when a frat group hung a woman figure out a window that was covered with red paint(blood). The school apologized. I believe Brown University also had a similar incident. They too apoligized.
keeneequinox.com/
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gam197
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Here is the artwork that may have upset the priest.It was just posted on the forum “In The News”.
catholicleague.org/06press_releases/quarter%204/061219_obscenities.htm
“Anti-Catholic art is offensive any time of the year, but it is doubly so when it occurs at Christmastime. The Art Center of Corpus Christi is the venue this December of the K-Space exhibit, a collection of pieces representing the work of artists from K-Space Arts Studio in this Texas city. Included is ‘an acrylic painting showing the womb of a nude virgin mother, who’s holding a crucifix linked by rosary beads to the unborn son’s umbilical supply’; a painting that ‘appears like a black and white version of the Last Supper,’ but is really a man ‘wearing a costume, eating dinner with rats’; a painting that ‘shows men, dressed in different costumes, one as a member of the Vatican, all drinking from a keg of beer’; and a drawing called ‘Communion’ that ‘depicts three people, all completely naked, holding hands.’
catholicleague.org/06press_releases/quarter%204/061219_obscenities.htm
“Anti-Catholic art is offensive any time of the year, but it is doubly so when it occurs at Christmastime. The Art Center of Corpus Christi is the venue this December of the K-Space exhibit, a collection of pieces representing the work of artists from K-Space Arts Studio in this Texas city. Included is ‘an acrylic painting showing the womb of a nude virgin mother, who’s holding a crucifix linked by rosary beads to the unborn son’s umbilical supply’; a painting that ‘appears like a black and white version of the Last Supper,’ but is really a man ‘wearing a costume, eating dinner with rats’; a painting that ‘shows men, dressed in different costumes, one as a member of the Vatican, all drinking from a keg of beer’; and a drawing called ‘Communion’ that ‘depicts three people, all completely naked, holding hands.’
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