Posted on 04/18/2011 8:27:59 AM PDT by markomalley
Note: DPA, a German news agency, probably had another meaning for "fundamentalist" than what we Americans would call "fundamentalist."
You are speaking from an American perspective. Traditional Catholics are often called “fundamentalist” in Europe, especially by liberal-modernist detractors. In America, traditionalists are sometimes pejoratively labeled “the Catholic Taliban.”
Are you suggesting that the Catholic Church is relativist? And here I thought BXVI was against the dictatorship of relatism...
Thanks for the translation... twas... interesting.
*twirls mustachios*
Any liberal of whatever confession is a relativists, but Pope St. Pius X infallibly (and therefore irreversibly) defined liberalism as a sin.
So, what the culturati do is to deny the status of "artist" to anyone who refuses to pimp for the Progressive Goddess or otherwise make their work serve political ends. Those who insist on creating media whose explicit qualities reflect upon reality or essential truth - are treated as heretics or worse- no matter how beautiful their use of form, imagery, color, light or texture. To the contrary: their preference is for the ugly and the obscene, the dissonant and the discordant, offered not as a celebration of Man, but as an affront to the reasoning mind that God gave him.
Not destroyed.
Deconstructed.
They could argue that it’s not vandalism at all. It’s just performance art.
How about, “They ‘deconstructed’ it.”
Bien. Bien. Merci.
It is supposedly against the law for American governments to fund or even freely accept art like this:
Instead, our taxes are used to pay for "Piss Christ" and works resembling this:
I am offended that the "art" I helped pay for was destroyed! /s
It is sad, though. Timeless art that celebrates humanity or our Divine spark is no longer recognized as such by the sort of mind that conceived this:
Not only is it derivative of Chagall, Picasso and Dali, it is a (a-hem) "piss-poor" quality rip-off, at that.
They were Catholics. I guess the word “fundamentalist” is considered a smear therefore placed as a preface. The AP/CBS/Reuters were vicious liars in their attack but must of the EU newspapers were reasonable and HONEST.
Great—The French are showing us what to do. This should have happened in the USA. Nice to see that a few Christians are left in France. I am sick of bending over for Mooslems —They are less than 2% of the American people, but demand so much. I do admire the fact they don’t let people mock their faith! They believe in their cockeyed religion and will go violent if anyone does something seen as a put down. Christians should do the same.
Actually, a Muslim country would have sentenced the artist to death for blasphemy, then "accidentally" let an incensed mob get to him and rend him limb from limb.
Excellent!!! It should have been destroyed the day it was put up.
So, do you call for the destruction of everything that offends you? Your faith must be very weak if a low-rent work of “art” threatens you.
Vive la France!
With due respect, I see it as extreme disrespect. How would you like it if someone put the flag in a jar of his urine? Or something that you respect put in urine? It’s just meant to shock and to insult Christianity. It’s not even a comedy or a joke like a South Park episode, but this was meant to insult.
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