Category: Art
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Organisers of a graffiti exhibition at Canterbury Cathedral that poses questions to God receive abuse from Christians
Please subscribe and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. “DO you ever regret your creations?” and “Why all the suffering?” are just two questions posted on pillars at an art exhibition organised by the cathedral’s curator Jacquiline Antonier…
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‘Greasy’ Jesus Lent poster upsets Spanish Christians
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. AN image of Jesus created with grease on paper by Spanish sculptor Gonzalo Quesada, above, for Lent has come mired in controversy. What the Spanish are calling the “fish wrap” poster, bears the Spanish word for Lent. It features some…
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Parodies of da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ have ouraged many over the years. The latest row erupted at the Olympics in France.
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. FOLLOWING the opening of Olympic Games last Friday organisers reportedly said they are “sorry” that scenes at the ceremony had caused offence. The BBC revealed that a banquet sequence featuring drag artists in particular came in for criticism from Christian…
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Seville’s Easter poster ‘too gay’ say conservative Spanish Catholics
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. A ROW has broken over the Spanish city’s unveiling of an Easter poster, created by internationally famous Seville artist Salustiano García Cruz who used his son Horatio as the model. Spanish news outlet, LaSexta reports that the artist, reacting to homophobic…
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Fury erupts over Barbie Mary and Jesus Ken dolls. The creators insist that no offence is intended.
BACK in 2014 Argentinian artists local Emiliano Pool Paolini and Marianela Perelli received death threats when they staged an exhibition entitled “Barbie: The Plastic Religion” which was later taken to centres outside the country—including the Vatican! In addition to featuring Barbie Mary and Jesus Ken, the exhibition included religious figures from Catholicism, Judaism, Hinduism and…
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US history professor under investigation for showing an image of Mohammed
THE Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, (FIRE) wants San Francisco State University to immediately call off an investigation launched against history professor Maziar Behrooz for showing a drawing of Mohammed while teaching a lesson on the history of the Islamic world. This is the second time this year that an image of the so-called…
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Abusive priest’s artwork poses a headache for Lourdes shrine in France
A GROUP made of priests, a psychotherapist and an victim of clerical abuse are pondering on whether to remove artwork created for the Basilica of the Sanctuary of Lourdes by Jesuit priest Marko Rupnik, inset above. Rupkin stands accused of sexually and psychologically abusing consecrated women from the Loyola Community in Slovenia. A few months…
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God is hate. Elderly woman threatened with hell for painting steps of a church in rainbow colours.
PITT Street Uniting Church in Syney, Australia, has been at the forefront of the fight for LGBT+ equality since the 1980s. So it certainly would have had no quarrel with a woman—part of a small group—who decided to paint its stairs in rainbow colours to coincide with World Pride currently being held in the city.…
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Row erupts over a pig’s ‘penis’ at a Michigan school
Back in 2010 all hell broke loose at an Oklahoma Catholic Church—St. Charles Borromeo—over a crucifix that many claimed was obscene. Now something similar has occurred in Michigan where a schoolgirl, aged 11, was traumatised after being accused by an art teacher of drawing a pig with ‘boy parts’. JUST when I a thought I’d…
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