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One Nation under god
July 21, 2015 at 3:29 pm
http://jonmcnaughton.com/content/ZoomDet...erGod.html
This is an interesting painting. Notice how he groups unmarried pregnant women and professors with satan. I also think it must be very insulting how many people including the author seems to paint soldiers as these bastions of faith. I know atleast man that was a medic in normandy, and if you call him a christian he'll take your ear off. I am sure there are more given that guys are more then capable of figuring out their own views.
it is also odd that he has thomas jefferson standing next to jesus when thomas openly wrote "Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity."
In fact there are several other figures I see here that were pretty anti christian. what do you all think?
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: One Nation under god
July 21, 2015 at 3:57 pm
I especially love the portrayal of Lincoln on his knees to fucking jesus.
Lincoln who said:
Quote:My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
-- Abraham Lincoln
But xtians love to lie to themselves to make them feel better about being stupid, I guess.
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RE: One Nation under god
July 21, 2015 at 4:23 pm
The book the student is holding is Skousen's The Five Thousand Year Leap, Skousen's contribution to the 'U.S. is a Christian nation' genre. Glen Beck plugs this book which is enough for me to never pick it up. Cleon Skousen was an ultra-conservative Mormon.
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RE: One Nation under god
July 21, 2015 at 4:24 pm
I have almost zero interest in didactic art, loathed this painting the first time I saw it, and now loathe the "artist" for his ham-fisted defense of the painting as seen in his point-by-point screed below it. Fuck him.
On a lighter note, I think it was Bill Maher who lampooned this on his show a while back, wondering if the boy pointing to the document in Jesus' hand was looking at a Catholic Church's settlement offer. If so, it might be the only honest aspect of the work.
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RE: One Nation under god
July 21, 2015 at 5:20 pm
(July 21, 2015 at 3:29 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I also think it must be very insulting how many people including the author seems to paint soldiers as these bastions of faith.
I saw this picture before and it would be pure kitsch if it wasn't for the underlying message.
As for the soldiers, consider what they called the Great War. My grandfather served in the Austro Hungarian army on the Eastern front. He was jewish, but what little of him I remember, never in any way religious. Yet they had their field rabbis, their field curates and even muslim preachers for their Bosnian units. The other side had the same lineup and every side believed to be right. Yet none of them was.
It's ludicrous, there's no other way to describe it.
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One Nation under god
July 21, 2015 at 7:22 pm
I fixed it.
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RE: One Nation under god
July 21, 2015 at 7:44 pm
(July 21, 2015 at 3:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote: But xtians love to lie to themselves to make them feel better about being stupid, I guess.
Beat me too it.
That's a really stupid painting.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
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RE: One Nation under god
July 21, 2015 at 7:58 pm
But the shitheads will eat it up.
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RE: One Nation under god
July 21, 2015 at 8:10 pm
Christian revisionism at its finest.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: One Nation under god
July 22, 2015 at 3:41 am
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