Something
Authentic
"Who being the
brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding
all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high" (Hebrews 1:3).
A painting that features President Obama posed as Jesus Christ crucified on is on display at a community college art gallery in Boston.
The painting by Michael D’Antuono is part of a larger exhibit called “Artists on the Stump – the Road to the White House 2012.” It’s on display at the Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery until Dec. 15th.
The painting is called “Truth” – and shows the president with his arms outstretched. A crown of thorns rests on his head.
It was originally supposed to debut nearly four years ago at New York City’s Union Square. But that event was cancelled due to public outrage.
“I always regretted cancelling my exhibit in New York because I feel my First Amendment rights should override someone’s hurt feelings,” D’Antuono told Fox News. “We should celebrate the fact that we live in a country where we are given the freedom to express ourselves.”
A spokesperson for the art gallery told Fox News there hasn’t been any criticism of the painting.
D’Antuono said the public exhibition “has afforded me the ability to right a wrong.”
He dismissed critics who called the display blasphemous.
“The crucifixion of the president was meant metaphorically,” he told Fox News. “My intent was not to compare him to Jesus.”
D’Antuono blamed the controversy on conservative media “trying to promote the idea that liberals believe the president to literally be our savior.”
In the aftermath of his aborted first attempt – the artist said he received more than 4,000 emails containing messages that were “anything but Christian-like.”
“But I accepted that it is their right to express themselves and hope that they now see it in their hearts to afford me the same right,” he said.
In Addition Dr Morris:
This writer has traveled the world, every continent, passport stamped in 157 countries. Most natives, wherever, China, India, Russia, etc. were looking for SOMETHING-SOMEONE AUTHENTIC. They thought they had found it in me, someone who would go through the rigors of traveling blind...honoring them by visiting their country.
I never cease to be amazed by gullible American's..people who have inherited so much from their ancestors, the patriots who died for their liberty. (Jesus did not introduce complicated liberty.) The spiritual investment God made in this nation, to put it in the vernacular, from 1799-1892, even the supreme court declared this a Christian nation, Christianity is set up very much as a U.S billboard campaign, the church, the church member, a witness-testimony-advertisement to what we believe.
If you were to ask your neighbor to borrow his car, he would have the right to know something about your character-driving record. So, too, the rental car agency. No one just lets anyone drive off in a heavy-expensive car knowing the risk involved on the highway-anywhere. Yet, GULLIBLE Americans have allowed the liberal-asinine not only to take over government but every area of life....education system, judicial system, health and welfare systems.
It started 100 years ago, the progressive movement of Wilson followed close on by FDR...controls, borrowing money. We are still paying interest on the $100 million that Woodrow Wilson borrowed to finance WWI. Most people who get involved in government, elected office, actually have the desire to make things better. It does not take them but a few days to find out that they are near the "cash box" and can pay for votes.
Government agencies started with an attempt to sanitize, butcher shops-water systems-restaurants. From this, thousands of government agencies neither fish nor foul. 143,000 federal workers (this does not include postal workers), just shuffling papers. Many offices duplicated, many have no idea why they exist.
Ask anyone, particularly a veteran or a member of a veterans family, dead or alive, the most inept agency in all government, the veterans administration. This totally blind, 100% disabled, service connected medical officer veteran of the Korean war era, having been on staff of military hospitals, patient in military-veterans hospitals, does not have the vocabulary to describe the incompetence-futility-profaneness of the system.
Combined with the above scenario and each citizen has his own story, comes the condition of the nation at present. Why did not this broadminded, liberal, decadent artist paint a picture of Mohammed? We would see how much he would boast about that. Why has Obama not put a stop to the idol worship involving him, presenting him as the savior-messiah? (http://newsone.com/2089658/jamie-foxx-soul-train-awards/) On October 17, 2008, Obama made the following statement: "Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger," I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth" (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/3213768/US-elections-Barack-Obama-jokes-he-is-Superman.html). He is not the first human being to classify himself as a super human. Paul tells us, "And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, [saying, It is] the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost" (Acts 12:21-23).
Insulting to me, a Christian, embarrassing to any church, where are the real star wards of our faith? We do not expect black liberation theology to challenge this black liberated President BUT, the real Christian community should be enraged that there is antichrist in The White House. Now we can understand why only 1% of all Christian churches are growing, why 1,700 Christian preachers leave the ministry each month.
One embarrassed church member said to me recently, "I invited my neighbor to go to church with me", and the neighbor said, "If going to church with you will make me like you, than I am going out of town."
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