Richard’s Bay: Parents left horrified by students’ “demonic” artworks / AKA The demonic art thread

rietrot

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Making international news, you'll have to add a few 0's on there now
Lol, This can be a funny meme that you might share with some friends for a quick joke, but art that you display in your house?

Normally you buy landscapes or something for that, except of cause if you have a anti religion themed room, complete with upside down crosses.
 

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Personally, I think much of that art looked quite interesting and not without merit.

The idea of Ronald McDonald at the last supper with dollar signs above is a sophisticated metaphor, I'd be interested in seeing that work in more detail (Edit: I see it's not original, though, but still it speaks to the mindset). It's not necessarily un-christian, it could actually be an interpreted as a commentary lamenting what has become of christianity, i.e. that society worships commercialism now.

The busts with horns and torn up bibles, though, are more of a blunt instrument. I'm guessing the purpose was exactly to inspire the kind of outrage that they indeed elicited in the man who made the video. In that sense, they are clearly successful.

Trying to put myself in the shoes of the creator(s) of that art, I get the sense that it stems from a deep cynicism of christianity and possibly the frustration a highly creative mind would have growing up in the kind of stifling religious environment that it seems might be present in the broader community around that school.
 

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The busts with horns and torn up bibles, though, are more of a blunt instrument. I'm guessing the purpose was exactly to inspire the kind of outrage that they indeed elicited in the man who made the video. In that sense, they are clearly successful.

If you look at their arrangement from the left to right it's actually pretty expressive. I'm getting "an atheist (the anti christ from a religious perspective) moulded with christianity" from that piece.

The last one on the right is just human.
 

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Lol, This can be a funny meme that you might share with some friends for a quick joke, but art that you display in your house?

Normally you buy landscapes or something for that, except of cause if you have a anti religion themed room, complete with upside down crosses.
Nothing to do with 'displaying in your house'.... hell, just look at those people who spend millions on what is nothing more than just a bag of rubbish thrown on a bed or something... I have no doubt there will be someone with more money than sense that'll see the article and video and offer $50k or something just cos it made some dude cry :giggle:
 

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It just rarely happens these days - the consequences are usually violent.
I remember the outrage and violence when that movie was released in 2012 - Innocence of Muhammed.
Now we have Islamisize Me and Muhammeds Boom Boom Room not even raising an eyebrow.
 

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If you look at their arrangement from the left to right it's actually pretty expressive. I'm getting "an atheist (the anti christ from a religious perspective) moulded with christianity" from that piece.

The last one on the right is just human.
Interesting.

Which illustrates the point that there is more to this than just the display of satanic symbols for the sake of it - it's eliciting reaction and thought provoking interpretations, and that is exactly the purpose of art like this.

The guy who made this video should stay away from things he can't appreciate due to his blinkered binary view of the world as either christian or not-christian. He is perfectly entitled to his views if that's what makes him comfortable, but he is equally also not entitled to pass judgement on others for having a different outlook that he cannot appreciate.
 

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Defaming the Prophet Muhammad exceeds the permissible limits of freedom of expression, ruled the European Court of Human Rights, upholding an Austrian court’s decision
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled Thursday that an Austrian woman's criminal conviction and fine for her statements accusing the Prophet Muhammad of pedophilia did not breach her right to free speech.
The decision by a seven-judge panel came as an Austrian national identified as E.S. by the court, had held seminars on Islam in 2008 and 2009 for the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) where she discussed the prophet's marriage to his wife Aisha, a child at the time, and implied that he was a pedophile.

An Austrian court convicted her of disparaging religious doctrines in 2011 and fined her 480 euros (548 dollars), a judgment that was upheld on two appeals.

 

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He's not really dead as he lives on in Christians. They bake some bread and chant a few words which converts the bread into the Body of Christ which they then consume. If you eat someone they become a part of you.


Was referring to this -
Defaming the Prophet Muhammad exceeds the permissible limits of freedom of expression, ruled the European Court of Human Rights, upholding an Austrian court’s decision
 

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He's not really dead as he lives on in Christians. They bake some bread and chant a few words which converts the bread into the Body of Christ which they then consume. If you eat someone they become a part of you.


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