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

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b_sharp4/18/2011 6:13:28 pm PDT

This is a good example of why reifying a symbol can be dangerous. The art is more valuable, in that it has an intrinsic value, than the symbol represented by the art.

Most of us would not become violent if a representation of the symbol immersed in urine was something we do not conflate with the phenomenon symbolized. If this was a female fertility symbol, instead of Christ, no one would even consider destroying the photo.