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Christianity, with its corpus of holy texts from very different authors and written during very different times, is actually quite capable of dealing with ambiguity. What is heresy or blasphemy and what is not can be battled out over time in a Baudrillardian arena. The problem here is involvement of the state, and the fact that jail is not a simulacrum.

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You speak a great truth--which is why I was sitting on the story for months on end waiting for that 'other shoe' to drop.

The proximal origin is the woke insanity of part of the Church, the chief problem is the state involving itself into these matters.

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Thank you for your excellent report. This statue is outrageously blasphemous - as a free-speech enjoyer, I support the artist's right to create it and display the art in a non-religious setting like a private cafe or gallery, but NOT the Church to be involved in any way. I support the person who beheaded the statue. If I were a parishoner, I would have removed it from the church and smashed it.

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See, while I share your sentiments, we're now both in the cross-hairs of Austrian police and public (sic) prosecutors for saying so.

What a shit-show, eh?

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I would be happy to go to prison for this.

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Once more, I share your sentiments, and while I'd rather by unhappy doing so, I'd gladly face this kind of abuse.

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It's all so insane, like so many things. Thanks for reporting.

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Why is she sitting on a rock like that? Rubbish artist, don't know how women give birth even.

And yes, one litmus-test of artistic integrity is indeed to dare mock, depict or even desecrate that which is holy to someone else. But when it's one singular target, and not equal treatment, then it's just a sign of puerile "rebellion"; like a four-year old saying "Daddy bad!" and threatening to abscond, in full knowledge Daddy will come get the child as soon as needed.

Why not a statue of Mahomet consummating his marriage to Aisha outside a mosque? Or Abraham and Sara driving out Hagar and Ishmael into the wasteland, outside a synagogue?

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