Burrr-durrrp On one hand, it's just silly for the church to get their knickers in a twist over this. On the other hand, that this is being touted as some kind of sophisticated art is pretty ludicrous as well. It looks like something you'd pull out of one of those crane machines at an amusement park.
Art doesn't have to be sophisticated to enjoy freedom. Neither does speech, or for that matter, religion. Freedom is there for crappy art, crappy words, and crappy beliefes as well.
I've no quarrel with the right to express. None. Not at all. That point was neither expressed nor implied. Not that I'm really surprised that you'd spin it that way, but I have to wonder why you'd bring it up. No....really....the point is that it's crappy pop art, and there are people falling all over one another to see this thing, as though it were significant. It's no more significant than an episode of Robot Chicken, which (unlike this statue) actually communicates something beyond the very obvious. Both sides are lending this piece more credibility than it deserves.
Hmm, A German artist making a sculpture of a frog crucified as a symbol of his angst? I remember real toads schallaced and mounted on a boards depicting much worse being sold by the Mexicans to tourists. I sure don't recall the Pope getting involved there. I would never consider the nailing of Christ to a cross as a symbol of God's Love though as evidently they do there. That's just silly, and I'm Catholic! That particular item is reserved as Christ's sacrifice to the world , not God's as far as I'm concerned.
The Gauls were Celts. The French are not Gauls. The French are Franks which are Germanic, not Celtic. So there.
