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Pope Benedict outraged over sculpture of crucified frog — Geez, ignoring this sort of thing is a better thing to do.
A sculpture of a crucified green frog has the Pope seeing red.
Pope Benedict called the wooden sculpture, “Zuerst die Füsse,” which hangs in the Museion museum in Northern Italy, blasphemous. The work by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger features a frog holding a beer mug and an egg, its tongue lolling out, nailed to the cross like Jesus Christ.
Museum officials had previously defended the piece, stating the artist considered it “a self-portrait illustrating human angst.”
Two years ago the museum, located in the town of Bolzano, was embroiled in another controversy, over a piece of art that featured a toilet flushing while the Italian national anthem played.
I just want to echo the fact that it is bad art, so bad that it must be purposefully intended to insult the church. THAT does kinda redeem it, but not enough to call it art. Drinking beer is a good thing, doesn’t raise angst in my mind, and pickled eggs can get used to.
Pontification or posing? It was a test sent by god and the poop failed. He should calmly condemn the art as poorly done and offer moral support for the artist (if dead to artists everywhere) to find peace of mind.
You know, the weird thing I’ve never been able to understand about the Catholic church is don’t they realize that a whole lot of people OTHER than Jesus were crucified??
#21. The point is that God’s own church is not supposed to crucify the Son of God and put Him to open shame.
#22 – Shubee
They prefer nailing the kids behind closed doors.
#23 – Yes. The church today is far more corrupt than it was in the first century.
#24 – Shubee
That’s because the Christian franchise were still in its infancy.
christ was born, therefore we can have nothing depicting that either
#23 – Jag, LMAO! How true, the pope should be outraged over the little boys being nailed by priests.
An ex-hitler youth turned bishop of Rome is upset about a frog nailed to wood.
This is the starting line of a joke right?
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#20 – Bobbo
>>and pickled eggs can get used to.
“get used to”?? The love of pickled eggs is woven into our DNA. Innate.
The only thing better than pickled eggs is a pickled lamb’s tongue. If you’re in a working man’s bar.
My mouth is watering….
#27 – Mister Ketchup
The Catholic Church runs the rolling scheme… Once the kids starts to whine, they just move the priest to another district and in with a new one.
Ratzinger is an angry old man who never outgrew medieval times. I don’t wish bad things on many people, but he’s one that the world would be better off without. He’s a christan taliban.
I’m ashamed he has the same nationality as I.
pj
#28 – The pope couldn’t possibly be outraged by hypocritical Christians, because he
himself believed in Hitler and Hitler
professed being a Christian.
In twenty years it will be considered art. Right now it’s just a tasteless beer figurine.
Why is a German pope offended by a frog on a crucifix?
#4, oh, I see, history has proven he existed, has it? Uh huh. Please provide your sources to back that up. Non biblical sources, of course. Also please prove that he had the powers the bible says he did.
Noooo..
its Kermit…
In response to:
># 37 ECA said, on August 28th,2008, 7:00 PM >Noooo..
>its Kermit…
Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what’s on the other side?
#17 Spartacus…good one,
I’ll give you the Oscar Wilde Award for Wit on that.
(wait a minute, you think of Spartacus when you see a cross??? ok.
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This piece sort of screams first year art student. What a cliche.