Offensive?
warm butter on toast
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 6,485
Likes: 0
From: The boonies, CT
I really like it. Art is supposed to be provocitive. There's been questions and censorship issues in art ever since it began thousdands of years ago. As for the Koran being respectless, there's more to art that just what you see. I preceived it as organized religion, not just Islamic religion.
Senior Member
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 172
Likes: 0
i think you should do a few different books with the bullets on top..not just the koran, it does seem very respectless to just seem to be downing that one religion..if you want to be fair, follow the way the movie team america did it, insult everything equally.
Thread Starter
Live Free Or Die
Joined: Apr 2003
Posts: 2,388
Likes: 1
From: San Diego County
Originally Posted by Nightshade
I would say that regardless of the holy book you use it would be met with the same objection. Even if you used all the holy books you could find it would be the same result.
The correlation between religious belief (or fervor if you will) and war is one that no religion wants to acknowledge in any way shape or form. Basically its like pissing in the holy water in front of the pope on easter....not the thing anyone really wants to tackle.
Kind of stupid but to get an idea of how offensive it is go to the catholic church and ask them for a complete history of the Inquisition....never happen because it is an embarrassment and they don't want to be associated with those archaic principles.....same goes for religion and war in general.
The correlation between religious belief (or fervor if you will) and war is one that no religion wants to acknowledge in any way shape or form. Basically its like pissing in the holy water in front of the pope on easter....not the thing anyone really wants to tackle.
Kind of stupid but to get an idea of how offensive it is go to the catholic church and ask them for a complete history of the Inquisition....never happen because it is an embarrassment and they don't want to be associated with those archaic principles.....same goes for religion and war in general.
mcc racing
Joined: Jun 2002
Posts: 3,264
Likes: 0
From: Southern New Jersey
Originally Posted by azn_redneck
I contributed this still life shot, titled "Seeds of War" to my church for use at their Long Beach Art Walk exhibit. They have decided not to use it though, because they think it might be offensive. What do you think?
i think that its a great picture... i think that its true.. THAT holy book along with OTHER holy books have driven MANY to war or acts equally bad... i think that the title is what makes the piece iffy.. if the title is to imply that you believe all readers of the book would be driven to violence then its stupid and wrong.. if the meaning is intended to bring about the irony of war resulting in the following of religion to the extreme level, then the title is DEAD ON.. i mean lets face it.. **** the people you piss off.. art is going to do that sometimes... i think that it would be nice to clearly show two holy books and maybe add another who’s title is not clear... this would send the message but leave the rest up to interpretation.. it would show that you are not DIRECTLY implying any one given book..
Registered Honda user
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 675
Likes: 0
From: Texas
Originally Posted by gutterslide
these are the seeds of war.
as an atheist, the photo isn't offensive to me. it just shows ignorance.
as an atheist, the photo isn't offensive to me. it just shows ignorance.
Yeah, I agree with Nightshade that it's probably not something a church would want to display, despite the fact that it would probably be spot on in regard to violent extremist groups.
