Posted on 10/08/2010 12:49:16 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
A Montana woman faces criminal charges after she used a crowbar to destroy a blasphemous exhibit at a gallery in Colorado.
Kathleen Folden was arrested after she smashed an exhibit that depicted Jesus in a lewd act. The exhibit, by artist Enrique Chagoya of Stanford University, had caused outrage among Christians.
Brave woman.
Kudos to her.
GOOD FOR HER!
She didn’t destroy anything.
She was a performance artist and that was her performance. She should apply for grant money.
Irish: you’re brilliant.
I would say - good, but the freedoms in our country permit this - might not be socially right or respectful - which is a whole new debate - but those that have no respect for Jesus are lost - and need to be prayed for...he was about peace and some that are evil will conduct their ART in such a way...I’m sure the artist is looking for attention and this woman has now given it to him...artist like this are really not an artist at all - but a lost soul...
Go Kathleen! Good for you!
However, if a Muzi were to torch a bible, nothing would happen. Religious tolerance and all.
Wasn’t she just expressing herself?
Destroy? The ‘destroyed’ peace in itself is art.
Who are we to judge?
The ‘artist’ may not realize this, but this is a natural reaction to how the ‘modern’ artists have been psuhing to get for so long. No response, keep pushing. No reaction, keep up the actions. Now that there is a reaction, it will continue, especially if the person reacting is punished and others agree.
All this pushing is how the TEA party was founded. Only a matter of time until more people start following suit.
We may now... finally... be entering an era in which Christians are willing to fight back. This is probably rather shocking to the elites.
She should have submitted her own ‘art work’ depicting a bowel movement along with Obama and when the left howls, demand equal fairness.
The left doesn’t like it when you use their rules to insult them.
Where is she? I want to send her this:
She wouldn’t spend a minute in jail if I was on the jury
This was a deliberate provocation, in my opinion.
Good one!
Though this is an isolated instance, I wonder if it should be viewed in a different context: that of the schism in Christianity between those who embrace its traditions, and those of the same sect who wish to, and believe they have the authority to, change those traditions.
That is, this woman was outraged enough to destroy the work of a likely atheist. Compare that to the enormous number of traditional Christians whose entire religion is being undermined and despised by people who pretend to belong to those religions.
How much worse is the depiction of Jesus as a homosexual, than to demand that the holy persons of that Christian religion be homosexuals?
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