Piss Christ’ returns to New York

Midtown Manhattan has been the scene of much religious reflection and blasphemy of late. One act of solemn reflection took place at the 140-year-old Central Synagogue on 55th Street, where Jews assembled on Wednesday to observe Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. While they prayed, a few blocks away a man who has called the state of Israel a “malignant cancer” prayed as well—for their and its destruction. In his speech before the United Nations General Assembly (video here), outgoing Iranian “President” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked God to bring “a new order” that “will do away with … everything that distances us.” If the intent wasn’t clear enough, he later explained in an interview with the Associated Press that he expects that Israel will soon become an “historical footnote.”
Today the blaspheming continues at the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery on 57th Street, where the state-sponsored “artwork” Piss Christ goes on display for a month. The work, in case you missed the controversy that swirled around its debut in 1987, consists of a photograph of a crucifix floating in the artist’s urine.
Read more here

Did anyone notice the Jews or Christians rioting? I didn’t.

Your tax dollars creating art offensive to a religion! And nothing burned down.

Christians 'flee Egypt town after death threats'
AFP - Several Christian families have fled their homes in Egypt's Sinai peninsula after receiving death threats from suspected Islamist militants, officials and residents told AFP on Friday.

Last week, flyers began circulating in the town of Rafah on the Gaza Strip border demanding that its tiny Coptic population move out, residents said.

Officials at the local church informed the authorities of the threats, but no actin was taken, they added.

Days later, a shop belonging to one of the families was fired on with automatic rifles, witnesses said.

www.France24.com

Well I can only hope that we will see a $70,000 apology film narrated in multiple languages by President Obama and Secretary Clinton and run throughout the christian world apologizing profusely for this act while asking christians to remain peaceful.

I'm holding my breath in anticipation.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/serrano-pis ... 1dnd6.html

Soulshiner wrote: www.smh.com.au/world/serrano-piss-christ...-20110419-1dnd6.html

I wondered where the moral equivalence was.

And yet it's back.

Well, since it was paid for in 1987 dollars, I think the statute of limitations has run out after 25 years, and you can all feel safe that YOUR tax-dollars haven't paid for any of it.

On the other hand, I think it's nice that the Christians that broke into the Paris museum and defaced the art and attempted to destroy it only damaged the building and the artwork, and didn't assassinate any ambassadors. or burn any embassies.

I should think some here would like to go to New York on a pilgrimage to see it in person...