Vandalism and threats greet "Piss Christ" in France

[mawilson 2,133]

Looks like Christianity also has its fringe element who think that calls for violence are an appropriate response to perceived sacrilege.

How many dead?

[Jenn! 918]

How many dead?

None. Doesn't stop people from reacting in a much different way when threats are made by Muslims that aren't followed through on.

[Ironman140 45]

How many dead?

Just give it a hours

Lmao

[mawilson 2,133]

None. Doesn't stop people from reacting in a much different way when threats are made by Muslims that aren't followed through on.

Because Muslims do follow through, occasionally.

[Ironman140 45]

Because Muslims do follow through, occasionally.

More like regularly ..

[Peikko 1,575]

When they start cutting the heads off museum staff let me know .. Until then it's just a bunch of crack pots .. Who I don't agree with.. But to call a Crucifix submerged in urine Art ???? is just as sick..

No, it's not 'just as sick'. Destroying property that belongs to someone else is vandalism, whether you like the property being destroyed or not. Calling that object art is just an opinion, an opinion that can't be created or destroyed by destroying the object itself.

[mawilson 2,133]

More like regularly ..

I was being sarcastic

[Ironman140 45]

No, it's not 'just as sick'. Destroying property that belongs to someone else is vandalism, whether you like the property being destroyed or not. Calling that object art is just an opinion, an opinion that can't be created or destroyed by destroying the object itself.

Agreed ... But most reasonable people of any faith would still call it Sick not Art .. But then not many reasonable exists anymore .. Now back to work.. Back to play later

[jundp 191]

So yeah. As a devout Catholic and someone who appreciates art, IMHO "Piss Christ" is no more deserving of the title of art than most of Serrano's other works. BUT, I don't think vandalizing his work is appropriate. If it offends a person, then they shouldn't pay to go see it. I think artwork like "Blue Canvas" or "Art Meant to Be Stepped On" (or whatever they're called) are also undeserving of the title "art," but I wouldn't vandalize them (though I did laugh when I saw the last one on display in the SAM -- Sorry, Yoko).

If I take personal offense at some crackpot making "art" like Serrano, then I must not have a very strong faith. Or rather, I can take personal offense if I chose to, but to act upon that offense makes me less than the person by whom I have been offended...

[Danno 1,228]

So yeah. As a devout Catholic and someone who appreciates art, IMHO "Piss Christ" is no more deserving of the title of art than most of Serrano's other works. BUT, I don't think vandalizing his work is appropriate. If it offends a person, then they shouldn't pay to go see it. I think artwork like "Blue Canvas" or "Art Meant to Be Stepped On" (or whatever they're called) are also undeserving of the title "art," but I wouldn't vandalize them (though I did laugh when I saw the last one on display in the SAM -- Sorry, Yoko).

If I take personal offense at some crackpot making "art" like Serrano, then I must not have a very strong faith. Or rather, I can take personal offense if I chose to, but to act upon that offense makes me less than the person by whom I have been offended...

Are you so introspective that nothing could prompt you to act out?

For instance, you and your mother or daughter are in the park and some teenage punk begins repeatedly insulting and taunting your mother or daughter.....in the most vile way,

do you

a. intellectually recognize their right to free speech and self expression or

b. Slap them down?

Some insult "beg" a response....why disappoint?

[sandinista! 1,816]

A death threat is a death threat is a death threat, IMO. Some get more attention than others, though that's not an outcome based reporting, but a sensationalist one.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

A death threat is a death threat is a death threat, IMO. Some get more attention than others, though that's not an outcome based reporting, but a sensationalist one.

Yep not much else to be said

[mawilson 2,133]

"Piss Christ" just doesn't have a ring to it.

Can we call it "Peesus"?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

So is entering the US without proper documentation.

[Amby 490]

Peesus