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Andres Serrano's 'Piss Christ' Attacked by Christian Protesters in France

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Gus4/18/2011 6:43:04 pm PDT

re: #149 marjoriemoon

Well… I don’t know. Strong enough not to damage the painting I think you mean.

I may think if someone wants to hang the Piss Christ in a gallery, I don’t have to see it if it offends me. But let’s say they made anti-Semitic caricatures and hung them in a gallery. Jews eating Muslim babies or wearing swastikas. I’m not the kind of person to run in and rip them off the wall, but if someone did, I wouldn’t be unhappy. Maybe I should, but I wouldn’t.

I don’t know what that makes me.

Well in that case I would say it’s different since it goes beyond religious symbolism and enters a realm of violence against a people. This would be as opposed to something like “Piss Torah” and left it at that — if someone ever created such a thing.