ROME — Pope Francis stunned the faithful this weekend when he welcomed some 200 avant-garde artists in the Sistine Chapel, including photographer Andres Serrano, creator of the controversial “Piss Christ” work showing a crucifix submerged in a glass of urine.
The pontiff received the artists to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vatican’s collection of contemporary art, telling them that like the biblical prophets, “you confront things that at times are uncomfortable; you criticize today’s false myths and new idols, its empty talk, the ploys of consumerism, the schemes of power.”
“You can see things both in depth and from afar, like sentinels who strain their eyes, peering into the horizon and discerning deeper realities,” the pope told the assembled artists. “In doing so, you are called to reject the allure of that artificial, skin-deep beauty so popular today and often complicit with economic mechanisms that generate inequality.”
Serrano’s 1987 photograph generated enormous press, with many decrying the 60-by-40-inch image as blasphemous. The artist, who describes himself as Catholic, claimed to have submerged the crucifix in a glass of his own urine.
When “Piss Christ” was exhibited in 1989, some 50 U.S. senators and 150 representatives complained that the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) had financed the exhibition and the NEA’s budget was eventually cut as a result.
File/Members of the “Pro freedom of expression” movement demonstrate on April 20, 2011 outside the Court of justice downtown Avignon, southern France, after a controversial photograph entitled “Piss Christ” of a crucifix submerged in the urine of New York artist Andres Serrano has been vandalized on April 17, 2011 during an exhibit of the Lambert collection in Avignon. (ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP via Getty Images)
While supporters contended that the controversy over “Piss Christ” was a matter of artistic freedom and freedom of speech, Australian Archbishop (not yet cardinal) George Pell sought an injunction in 1997 from the Supreme Court of Victoria to prevent the National Gallery of Victoria from publicly displaying the work.
Your art “strives to act as a conscience critical of society, unmasking truisms,” Pope Francis told the artists in Friday’s audience. “You want to make people think, to be alert; you want to reveal reality also in its contradictions and in those things that it is more comfortable and convenient to keep hidden.”
Andres Serrano was not the only controversial artist invited to the pope’s Sistine Chapel event.
Abel Ferrara, who directed the recent Padre Pio film starring Shia LaBeouf, cut his teeth as a director in 1976 with the pornographic film titled Nine Lives of a Wet Pussy.
Ferrara’s second feature-length film was the disturbing 1979 slasher movie The Driller Killer, a dark urban film about an artist (played by Ferrara himself) who goes on a killing spree with a power drill.
“As visionaries, men and women of discernment, critical consciences, I consider you allies in so many things that are dear to me, like the defense of human life, social justice, concern for the poor, care for our common home, universal human fraternity,” Francis told the artists in his address.
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Of course he did.
It is a disgusting sight and sound, that Whoopi thing is. Betcha it smells bad too.
At least with her physical condition we can expect her to drop dead soon.
I hope she falls on that Joy cunt crushing her when it happens.
You would think people would be offended Whoopy goes out in blackface.
The devil in popes clothing!
Betcha it smells bad too.
Jes like crisco, doncha know?
Dirty Ignorant Nigger
Who did Whoopi blow to get her Kamala, I mean career going?
The fact that the main stream jewish controlled media always recognizes Catholicism as “the church” speaks volumes.
joe biden and nancy pelosi are god fearing, practicing catholics.
Paul Pelosi started a homeless support group “The Master’s Hammer”
“First rule of Hammer Club”
Piss Christ? Piss Koran! — Part One
Posted on June 6, 2016 by Baron Bodissey
The latest work of fiction by Matthew Bracken will appear here in several installments.
[This story is also in my “Bracken Collection,” in printed form only. But you can read it all at the Gates of Vienna link.
Hey Matt?
That was a great 4 part story!
excellent share, thankyou very very much!
‘round here piss Christ is all good, but don’t dare do piss Hitler.
Certainly not Piss Talmud, either.
Can I ask you a question? Did you have to look and see if this was a BB article too?
I do that with every other TBP article.
This is where the “artist” announced for his next art project he will create “Piss Koran”. What? You don’t think he will do it?
I guarantee if be shows it in Europe he will regret it.
In Macron’s France, he’d be fine:
(Trigger warning: the criminal below invites your firearms.)
A-yup, another hateful, malignant, bitter, feminazi dyke, celebrating and spreading her damage, instead of protesting it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Cahn
These malignant bitches want done to other children what probably happened to them. They’re never about healing and nurture, as an unmolested girl would naturally grow to be about, as a woman. Yet more proof, as if any were needed, that children must be protected from “being interfered with”:
Sick old freak whore.
More word salad mockery. SMDH.
When the Roman’s invented the Jesus legend [to try and split the constantly rebelling Jews] by regurgitating prior legends like Gilgamesh, there was just no way of knowing how out of control the idea would eventually become.
Lol. That’s just dumb. The kind of thing a 12 year old old would hear and think some pearl of wisdom. You don’t have to believe in Jesus to recognize that 1) he existed as a historical person and 2) a lot of people were influenced by him. It’s like saying Mormon founder Joseph Smith didn’t exist. There are countless writings from within living memory of Jesus’ time on Earth.
https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
That’s just dumb.
You don’t have to believe in Jesus to recognize that 1) he existed as a historical person and 2) a lot of people were influenced by him.
I believe in a creator.
I have no need for Jesus or Salvation.
I can commune directly with God at anytime.
No one, needs a holy book after they learn right from wrong.
The fact that people attend religious meetings their entire lives and never learn right from wrong is a condemnation of all world religions for failing to deliver peaceful “followers”
a condemnation of all world religions for failing to deliver peaceful “followers”
An absolutely absurd conclusion based on the worst kind of ppo logic. Blaming world religions for failing to deliver peaceful followers is like blaming a Ford F250 for failing to drive itself to Bakersfield.
It. Is. A. Vehicle. Religion provides the means, not the motivation. If motivation is lacking, it doesn’t matter how inspired the teaching is. The lure of the world overwhelms most of us, to some degree or another. Look to those who are called to practice if you want to discover where the fault lies.
Blaming world religions for failing to deliver peaceful followers is like blaming a Ford F250 for failing to drive itself to Bakersfield.
Emmm, so are you sayingworld religion has failed to morally educate?
The lure of the world overwhelms most of us, to some degree or another.
You are saying religion has failed.
Look, I tell you truly, life is a road, religions are supposed to be the guideposts to proper behavior, not the banners you die under.
Your life, is your most valuable asset.
Treasure it
God puts a lot of work into keeping it all this going. Cherish it.
Sorry if it comes off harsh, but you all have so very little time to buy oil.
And I am being so patient.
Messenger.
Jesus left us so many simple and universally valuable guides to live and view the world. Including “you will be known by your fruits”. The ‘fruits’ of mainstream religion have rarely been good. Hard to argue with Goldberg’s opinion on evangelical christians.
You’re communing with the wrong God.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 KJB… “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
Lucifer is only too happy to bring you along for the ride. It doesn’t end well for him or those who follow him.
“You’re communing with the wrong God”
“You are gods; Indeed, all of you are sons of the Most High.
Those are elohim, not men.
Michael Heiser — Defining “Sons of God” | Genesis 6 , Deuteronomy 32, Psalm 82
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG
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3000 odd religions and their Gods.
What are the odds you chose the right one?
Yeah, that is what all worshiping the others say too.
But there is actual evidence the mormon guy lived. Not so with jesus.
Although a person may question whether or not Jesus was an historical figure, suggesting he was a Roman psych-op, a la the crank Joseph Atwill, demonstrates a lack of knowledge of history. Learn to think for yourself.
One tends to get a different outcome if the deck isn’t stacked.
For me, it was the study of human nature and allegory which broke wide open the bible “code”
The Bible is supposed to instruct a human to spiritual maturity.
Milk is for children.
Solid food is for adults.
Is a riddle.
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I stand by the Jesus story is not accurate.
I can believe a man rose up and clearly told truth. But from my perspective, what I think happaned after the threat of truth was neutralized, they went ahead and top loaded the gilgamesh story along with a bunch of magical miracles onto this truth teller, had their point man Saul/Paul go in and overwrite the story with a bunch of “pay taxes and obey roman laws” nonsense the Jews were never going to submit to.
No way was it part of a psyop.
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My new favorite observation has to do with the fishy miracles.
Quite fortuitous that Jesus had recruited a team of commercial fishermen as his “disciples”
[Or perhaps, “co-conspirators” contracted by the Roman Empire?]
Do you know one of the reasons Jesus chose fishermen? Multiple languages were spoken along the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Fishermen had to deal with and try to sell their fish to all these different people and spoke multiple local languages and dialects. The ideal “fishers of men” by extension.
The ideal “fishers of men” by extension
Exactly:
Jesus “I will make you fishers of men”
Disciples “What are we going to use as bait?”
Jesus “Free fish.”
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P.S. I don’t recall a single scripture where Jesus is said to have had “multilingual” as a prerequisite for his disciple recruiting program.
Which begs this question?
How come you can freely speculate about spurious bible “facts” but I am not allowed to express my educated guess?
Is it, that to consider you have all been duped* into worshiping the allegory instead of learning the lessons is a bridge too far?
Why is it so scary to put down your chains?
*by all world religions
I checked with the Apostles LLC HR Dept. Right at the top of the list: “Ability to sell smelly fish to foreigners.”
Galilean Times Classified :
Apostles wanted. Must be expert fishermen, speak at least three languages, and be available for matinee performances on “The Mount”.
Haha, good one. Over intellectualised protestantism. Take the simple, beautiful, logical and profound teaching of Jesus and turn it into a maze no two people can ever agree on
Which ones were fishermen? Since when do fishermen sell their own fish? And why outside their own community?
Milk is for children.
Solid food is for adults.
Is a riddle.
No, it’s not at all. It is plain. Every serious spiritual or religious path has an exoteric and an esoteric component. You survey the esoteric and find it sorely wanting. That’s because it is filled with the Third String.
Jesus taught the esoteric to His disciples and was often aghast that they failed to grasp the significance of what He was giving to them freely. Esoteric teachings are those that, in some measure, propound the deep mystery that is the Abyss, the principle, or power or dynamic that is unfathomable to our reasoning minds. The fact that you seem to think you can commune with God once you know “right from wrong” just shows you to be a novitiate at best, not a High Priest.
My body is a temple.
Who should be my high priest, me?
Or another man?
“Do not place your faith in the princes nor the sons of man, to whom no salvation belongs.”
Who does that leave?
If you say God, you are ignoring your own natural rights and responsibilities.
“Each one will account for his sins”
I can prove morality by simply observing the natural life cycles. I do not need the assistance of these “blind” guides anymore.
The natural cycles also prove the existence and nature of the “Creator” in true power and glory.
I am not saying the various religious myths and legends are wrong in their intent, but they become wrong the moment people are willing to harm each other “in the name of” their respective beliefs.
The truth is, God is all power.
All physical material is made of energy.
All life is animated by this life force.
All things are all God at all times.
Except behavior.
As far as I have ever observed,
God and Satan both only exist through observable human behavior.
All you have proven is that you don’t really understand what “prove” means.
The fact that you seem to think you can commune with God once you know “right from wrong” just shows you to be a novitiate at best, not a High Priest.
What is it that creates the gulf between “man and God”?
Is it sin?
Sin which is doing something that harms self or others.
So, if one learns the premise behind right and wrong and obeys it, one is better than perfect according to God’s own words.
Let’s look at David:
“David, a man whose heart was complete towards Jehovah”
All that I need NOT do to have a “more complete heart” than Biblical “David” is to:
● NOT covet my neighbors wife.
Check.
● NOT commit adultery with my neighbors wife.
Check
● NOT cover it up by calling her husband home from “war” to have relations with the wife I sullied.
Check
● NOT have him killed when my plan to cover up my adultery fails.
Check
● NOT marry the whore after God punishes the baby with death instead of me..
Check.
My heart is more complete toward God than his “beloved servant David” for whom God did not require his Law Covenant be enforced.
Apparently David had Jewish Privilege.
David should have been put to death for adultery.
He should have been put to death for murder.
That he wasn’t and God is ok with it? Suggests the God of the bible is inconsistent, and he does not
apply his law equally.
Or it proves the bible writers were inconsistent in their assembled presentation of THEIR version, of The God Show.
That anyone can praise the adulterous murderer David?
That he was not punished according to the law of Moses?
That the baby was killed instead?
Don’t know how I believed any of this nonsense at face value for as long as did.
Once I applied “knowledge” to the “holy scriptures” the understanding just opened right on up.
Also torturing his enemies, which got rewritten at some point as making them work.
Absolutely true. And the reason Jesus spoke in parables which 2,000 years later still convey their true meaning. I would go one step further and say that it is not entirely necessary to understand the esoteric meaning of Jesus’ teaching. Its genius is that it is effective on multiple levels. If you do literally “turn the other cheek” you will effectively end the cycle of revenge. The esoteric meaning offers clues to ‘finding the kingdom of God’ (higher consciousness), but the literal practice also makes the world a better place.
“Milk is for children.
Solid food is for adults.”
Typical mystery religion stuff or ranks like mason.
Baby and bathwater principles do apply to the bible.
“Milk is for children.
Solid food is for adults.”
Typical mystery religion stuff or ranks like mason.
Agreed. But without such phrase clues, I might never have known to keep looking, long even after I thought I had”found”.
suggesting he was a Roman psych-op, a la the crank Joseph Atwill, demonstrates a lack of knowledge of history. Learn to think for yourself.
By the DVs, I posit I am.
Jesus wasn’t the psy-op it was Paul. The jewish lawyer and persecutor of christians who took political control of the early church and corrupted Jesus’ teaching.
I agree, Saul~Paul was Phoenician Navy.
Saul~Paul.
Three unique conversions.
Never met “The Master”
Wrote thirteen books of the 26 book new testament.
Was a Roman citizen in good standing.
Was a Pharisee in good standing.
Saul~Paul-
A Roman govenment asset, traveling throughout the Roman empire with a mission to spread this new religion, created by Rome and the pharisees, with the intention of dividing those darned rebellious Hebrews, along with dividing and conquering other religions and peoples, thus increasing the Empire tax revenues through a religious shell corporation.
You mean religion like Romulus.
We know who the real subverters are.
The old saying “Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear shit in the woods?” doesn’t work anymore.
Ah, but a painting of a bear shitting into the pope’s mouth?
Just sold for $13 gazillion dollars.
Except that Bergoglio is not the pope. He is an antipope, and not the first.
Correct Iska.
The pope cannot be a Communist faggot. Not allowed by the Creator.
Just as in the Medici times.
Nothing really changes.
I would be surprised if any recent pope has done anything like what the Medicis did for the Renaissance.
Well … the bears still shit in the woods — it’s the hominids that shit in the streets of SFO and LA and NYC and …
a bear still shits in the woods
No I think it goes:
A. Is the shit catholic?
B. Does a bear pope in the woods?
Personally, a “banana taped to the wall” was a stellar piece of work, methinks.
Frankie is filled with the spirits – the spirits of The Adversary and Karl Marx.
Those cardinals need to voat harder next time.
I’ve recently found that one way to stop an endless chain of group texts is 1) declare that Bergoglio is not the pope and 2) people need to stop getting those damn injections. Suddenly nobody wants to talk to me anymore. Lol
We’ll talk with you here, Iska …
😉
On a plane next to a stranger who is a talkative seat mate, just utter the magic phrase: “Has anyone talked to you about the Jehovah Witness message?”
The silence of Deep Space to follow.
Have you heard the glorious message of My Lord and Savior Gorp?
“All hail Gorp!”
The look on your face when your seatmate’s face lights up and he excitedly asks you “What congregation are you in?”
Sad trombone.
Now you got a JW who thinks you are “interested in the Truth” on a ten hour flight.
And you can’t pretend you aren’t home.
I am going to drop a deuce on the Bible, stack a Koran on top, and call it “Religious Shit Sandwich”.
Then all the cool kids will like me, I can sell it for MILLONS, and get invited to the Vatican.
Nope, nothing wrong with the world today. Nothing at all…..
FFS. Nuke it from orbit….
Just shows to go you how elastic the terms ‘art’ and ‘artist’ are …
Can’t help but wonder how well received a ‘piss torah’ or a ‘piss talmud’ would be by the ‘intelligentsia’ …
Without the Talmud….rest of comment rescinded after black van parked across the street.
The signage says “Melvin’s Pizza”
Sounds made up.
A wonderful idea – art that challenges. A definite show stopper.
I wish they’d stop referring to Bloatus Bergoglio as “Pope”, it’s like calling Biden”President”.
Pedo faggot.
I don’t have a history of the Catholic popes. But, I think he may be the most Satanic ever.
These imposters have done some fucked up shit throughout history. This guys is a rank amateur compared to pope John XII or pope Stephen VI
Seems fitting for a “Shit Pope”…
Shit Pope and the Pagan Sisters of Santo Demonica
He probably wants to suck the guys cock.