(October 4, 2014 at 4:44 pm)Heywood Wrote: The purpose of the statue is to provide inspiration. By desecrating it like that you destroy its ability to inspire. When the people who put it up look at it, the won't be thinking of Christ's agony, but rather they will be thinking of Christ giving a blow job to a 14 year old.
What if thinking of the blowjob enhances the inspirational properties of the statue? How do you know that the net effect of this was reductive, rather than an enhancement? Aren't you just assuming that to be the case because it fits your argument?
And if you want to say that you don't think it's possible that a blowjob could increase the statue's potential to inspire, I merely have to ask you when it was that you became the arbiter of what is and isn't inspirational? See, to me? What I saw before, when I looked at that statue, was something laughable and saccharine. Now when I look at it I see the theocratic auspices of officious fools seeking to damage a real human life over an imagined slight, and that makes me angry. Don't knock the inspirational power of anger, Heywood; whole movements can be built on anger, and that is why your claim is demonstrably false from the get go.
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