@fmf saidI know what the artist has said about the work, I'm just interested to see how many Christians here get it right.
"Piss Christ" [1987]
To your way of thinking, what perspective or criticism was the controversial photo propagating?
@suzianne saidIt would be fun if people did not look it up.
I know what the artist has said about the work, I'm just interested to see how many Christians here get it right.
It would have been nice if Serrano had not demystified it by explaining himself.
Art should, to some extent, belong to the beholder once the artist has handed it over.
I remember reading about it [along with the political ruckus] 34 years ago but I can't remember what the photographer said exactly.
@fmf saidI was 10 or 11 at the time it came out. I didn't care about it if I did see it then, and when the story and its controversy became interesting to me in college, I went to the university library and looked up publications talking about it at the time.
It would be fun if people did not look it up.
It would have been nice if Serrano had not demystified it by explaining himself.
Art should, to some extent, belong to the beholder once the artist has handed it over.
I remember reading about it [along with the political ruckus] 34 years ago but I can't remember what the photographer said exactly.
He was charged in the media as a blasphemer, and he felt that he should clear that up. This is why he granted interviews about it.
I won't say any more in order hear the knee-jerk responses similar to my first reaction when it was brought up in discussion in one of my classes.
My initial post about this was just to let you know that I'd be interested to see the response to this.
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It’s funny how you set yourself up as the arbiter of what honors and dishonors Jesus Christ when you abandoned the faith and bragged like an imbecile about how you stood strong in your atheism during a crisis and refused to pray to Jesus.
Then you went even further in your ridiculous OP and claimed you were like an atheist in a foxhole, but, by golly, with all those imaginary bullets flying around you and your life hanging in the balance, you told Jesus to take a hike and strutted out of the hospital.
Our hero! 😂
@pb1022 saidWhy are you bringing up, again, what I went through when my wife nearly died? You said you were not going to bring it up again. I didn't say I "stood strong" or that I "refused to pray to Jesus". You are trolling and your mischaracterization is nothing more than malicious spin on what I revealed in my story. What my wife and I experienced is personal information.
It’s funny how you set yourself up as the arbiter of what honors and dishonors Jesus Christ when you abandoned the faith and bragged like an imbecile about how you stood strong in your atheism during a crisis and refused to pray to Jesus.
@pb1022 saidWhy are you trolling me about what my wife and I went through?
Then you went even further in your ridiculous OP and claimed you were like an atheist in a foxhole, but, by golly, with all those imaginary bullets flying around you and your life hanging in the balance, you told Jesus to take a hike and strutted out of the hospital.
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@FMF
I’m not trolling you at all and never mentioned your wife.
I mentioned what you said in your OP and how you presented yourself in your OP - as this heroic atheist who stood strong in his atheism despite being in a metaphorical foxhole and how you proved, by golly, that atheists *do* exist in foxholes.
Here’s just a sampling of what you said:
“What a momentous thing ~ what a game-changer ~ it would have been, in light of all the views I have espoused and propagated sincerely here on this forum over the last decade or so, if I had prayed that night.”
So self-absorbed and ridiculous.
And if you and dive want to dish it out, you oughta be prepared to take it. I don’t take bullies lightly.
Just be thankful the two of you trolls don’t run into me in real life 😉