Monday, March 12, 2012

What is Wrong with this Picture?

A dead, naked Jesus depicted inside the entrance of a Latin rite basilica in Canada.

Kids, cover your eyes.

Homoerotic art is not in the footprint of Christian iconography and never has been and never will be.

This is one prominent place of international pilgrimage that I will not be returning to.

13 comments:

  1. I thought Jesus was crucified naked...at least that was the practice of the time. So what's wrong with portraying reality?

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  2. Michelangelo:

    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santo_Spirito,_sagrestia,_crocifisso_di_michelangelo_05.JPG

    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_de_Michelangelo_2.jpg

    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cristo_portacroce_michelangelo2.jpg

    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milano_-_Castello_sforzesco_-_Michelangelo,_Piet%C3%A0_Rondanini_by_Michelangelo_(1564)_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto,_6-jan-2006_-_05.jpg

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  3. This would make a great Joan Rivers Tweet! Or Angelina Jolie tattoo.

    Whistleblower posts are the best......and the 2012 Golden Whistle Award goes to.....

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  4. Anna Katharina Emmerick wrote that Christ was NOT naked when crucified.

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  5. Who are we to doubt Emmerick's eyewitness account?

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  6. St. Joseph, pray for us.

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  7. And this from "a true Renaissance man"? Laughable!

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  8. Anonymous @ 1:57: no, Jews were not naked when they were crucified. The Romans allowed them the decency of at least a loincloth (or a 'breech clout', as I read in Jim Bishop's book 'The Day Christ Died').

    Where the heck is this picture at? I think it's disgusting, too!

    I hope this isn't at St. Joseph's Oratory! Or is it?

    Barb in NY

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  9. Once again before the Pauline Mass this would probably have been unthinkable. The whole attitude that everything can now be done gripped the Church like a terrible plague. Very sad and unnecessary.

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  10. The question asks what is wrong with this picture so what is wrong with it
    I don't know if you guys have already answered it but I have no idea what it is,

    I am not the age you guys probably thought I was before reading this so since I am young could you guys put it in simpler words. If you do thanks very much I really wanna know what's wrong with this picture.

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  11. Nudity is not a spectator sport. It is one thing to have a nude baby Jesus, quite another to have a nude adult Jesus. Homosexualist art is contrary to Catholic/Orthodox iconography.

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