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Originally Posted by GA Russell
2) It seems like 100% of the sacrileges are attacks against Jesus and Mary. I am unaware of any tax-funded museum in the US which has displayed art which is offensive to Jews or Muslims.
As a result, Christians are tired of it, and evidently this woman took matters into her own hands.
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This isn't an "attack against Jesus and Mary"-- it is an attack against a Catholic hierarchy which places as a top priority protecting child-raping priests from justice. There are plenty of people who are tired of
that-- but it hasn't reached the stage of taking crowbars to priests.
Yet.
Chagoya says he's sad that his book and the First Amendment were attacked.
"Should we as artists, or any free-thinking people, have to be subjected to fear of violent attacks for expressing our sincere concerns? I made a collage with a comic book and an illustration of a religious icon to express the corruption of something precious and spiritual," Chagoya told FoxNews.com. "There is no nudity, or genitals, or explicit sexual contact shown in the image. There is a dressed woman, a religious icon's head, a man showing his tongue, and a skull of a Pope in the upper right corner of the controversial page. I did not make a picture of Christ. I used symbols as one would use words in a sentence to critique corruption of the sacred by religious institutions."
Those institutions, he says, need to be criticized when they get corrupted and people have every right to dislike his criticism, just as he has a right to express it.
"Violence is the opposite of what Jesus, Mohammed or Buddha taught. I am amazed that some of the followers don't adhere to the teachings. Agree to disagree and love thy neighbor," he said.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/07...-art-colorado/