8/06/2008

Bland Blake Prize for Religious Art

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the latest moral outrage prompting calls from the historically stupid for the mandatory hate crime prosecution of atheists, Muslims, Buddhists, and Jews everywhere as well as anyone with a sense of humour.



Click the pictures for links to the SMH and Age articles about the controversy.

I dig the second one! The Sydney photographer responsible, Dean Sewell, said "Jesus was crucified to pay for the sins of man, and Corey was crucified by the media to pay for the sins of the MySpace generation". So that's a bit of awesome in the middle of an overwhelmingly boring exhibition that was last year responsible for a statue of the Virgin Mary in a burqa and a hologram of Christ that morphed into Osama bin Laden, and was labelled as "gratuitously offensive" by noted art critic Former Prime Minister John Howard.

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