BTW, I never thought of "Piss Christ" as being intentionally offensive to "Christians." I had always assumed the piece of art was directed at the Catholic Church. The fact that other Christians may have been offended was simply collateral damage.

Here's a piece of "offensive" art I'd like to see: Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Rick Warren as a human centipede. Could someone get on that, please?

Rush has a Cochlear implant.

Again, we all need to agree on what we mean by "right" and "wrong" here. Is Piss Christ rude? Yes, to a degree it is. Is it "wrong" to be rude? Yes, in a way it is. Is it morally wrong to be rude? Not really. Is rudeness always wrong? Probably not.

No, I don't consider Piss Christ to be a signicant wrong (especially not morally). No, I wouldn't consider displaying the ashes of burnt Qurans as wrong (especially not morally). No, I don't consider the burning of Qurans as a concept to be wrong (especially not morally).

I do consider irrationally hating a group of people and specifically seeking out a action calculated to most offend those people as wrong (not morally but wrong as in awfully damn rude). Even more wrong is to view (though this is just supposition on my part) it as acceptable to religiously offend other people why expecting your own religious beliefs to be respected.

That said, to the degree anybody in the offended population says "it is so wrong for you to offend me that I will be justified in my violent response" then I feel compelled just on principal to engage in the offense, as I did when I posted all of the offending Mohammed cartoons on my LJ. Sadly, nobody noticed. Similarly, some violently pro-life people make me want to attend medical school so I could perform sidewalk abortions in front of them.

He's deaf. The Oxycontin addiction destroyed his hearing.

Ugh, that reminds me - some friends think I should check out a movie called Centipede where victims are kidnapped by some sicko and then turned into some human centipede by being surgically linked mouth to anus and all their gastrointestinal systems flowing from one to the other.

Uh, I'm NEVER going to see that film - BUT, I wouldn't mind if that really happened to Beck, Limbaugh and Warren, and then put on display at a circus.

uh....ick.

By wrong I meant offensively stupid. And yes, I consider flag burning offensively stupid. Neither should be illegal, but both should be called offensively stupid at any opportunity.

When I saw this I got so pissed and frustrated I wanted to pick up a heavy object and hurl it through a window. What is wrong with people like this?! Unbelievably ignorant.

Ok, I watched that, but I just don't get it. I suppose I need by Tea Bagger decoder ring to see what section of the Constitution Obama violated by proposing that Congress spend a lot of money.

Is it money on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some five trillion dollars and counting, that Congress approves with a rubber stamp? Is it the stimulus fund that's now coming to an end? (Wait till the guy on the park bench gets really slammed when that money runs out). Is it the TARP bailout that Bush pushed through which teabaggers love to blame Obama for? (Though he's got plenty of bail-out funds he pushed through himself).

I'm just not sure what the point of the painting is. And with the artist himself narrating a piece about the painting and its meaning (which I daresay most paintings don't boast), I'd say the ongoing mystery to me of the painting's statement makes it a giant fail.






Oh, and it's ugly.

Click through to the artists web site for a larger version of the painting that is annotated to explain why everything in it, is in it.

You can also be reminded of his Jesus is best painting.

It's just overly self satisfied glurge I see from a lot of people, a painted version of Glenn Beck's show.