Today in class we discussed the fact that, in the art gallery in the MCA, a painting of the crucifixion was removed from display because you could see Jesus' genitalia in the painting. When I looked at it at first, I didn't even realize it. The painting was so astonishing, so gory, that his crotch was not my main focus. However, it apparently was for somebody, and it was removed from the gallery because of it. (I can't find the painting, otherwise I would post it on here to refresh our memories).
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| This is not accurate, for a variety of reasons. |
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| This is not accurate. |
This blows my mind. The fact that Christian censorship has become so strict as to require the censorship of the Christ's death is wild to me. When Jesus was crucified, he wasn't awarded the privilege of being clothed. In a very intentional way, Jesus' murder was fabricated to be a public shaming. He was made to physically bare it all so that one more little chink could be cut out of his self-respect. I think that Christians want to ignore Jesus' nakedness because we still want to shelter ourselves from pornographic images. However, if we think that these are pornographic images, there is definitely something wrong here.
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