[Right Wing Assault]

One of my most painful religious experience was having to watch a bunch of women in gowns running around waving ribbons. Liturgical dancing. I pictured God face-palming.

[metmom]

It’s better than watching someone nearly take someone’s eye out as they *flag* (yes, used as a verb).

The use of gaudy flags in Pentecostal circles for *worship* is about the worst I’ve seen for attention getting behavior.

And when someone gets their flags out and starts waving them around, be prepared to duck. They don’t care who’s around and don’t watch out for you.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

One of my most painful religious experience was having to watch a bunch of women in gowns running around waving ribbons. Liturgical dancing. I pictured God face-palming.

Yes. In the full article, the writer addresses this predicament of Christian art.

She alludes to Michelangelo whose greatness even non-believers appreciate and attest to. One of many. Note also some of the greatest works of classical music. They may have been intended for liturgical purposes, but they stand on their own as setting the standards of excellence for the mainstream public as well.

Unfortunately, the neglect of artistic expression in the Christian world has led to both Evangelical and Catholic 'subcultures' of mediocrity. Part of it has to do with the advance of secularism in the modern age and the myth of dualism: the idea that one's Christian life is fully divorced from one's day to day reality. That in order for art to glorify God, it has to be explicitly Christian.

In reality: Good art is good art. It doesn't have to be blatantly about Jesus or have a Cross in it for it to glorify God...but the point is that this emphasis on greatness is so lost because of an overall loss of emphasis on art as a whole.

A mainstream Hollywood movie that is artistically well made and thoughtfully explores the facets of the human experience is something worthy of praise even by Christian standards.