Snit Hume shrieks "What about Piss Jesus"

[KennedyGuy]

In the so called "all Star" segment they were once again talking about Newsweek and the Koran. Snort Kondrake said that Muslems were upset because the Koran is the Muslum equivalant of Jesus. snit shrieked "What about Piss Jesus, that so-called art exhibit where the cross was dipped in piss...you didn't see christians rioting"? What a moron...is Piss something you can say on TV...sounds like a case for the FCC.

[bunkerbuster1]

1. Actually, they DID riot

Ok, there wasn't any actual bloodshed, but AM hate radio RAN on Serrano's "Piss Christ" for months.

Leave it to Shit Hume to bring that one up again.

[KamaAina]

2. It's called "Piss Christ", Brit, not "Piss Jesus"

the controversial artwork by Andres Serrano. Artwork. And I didn't even have to google that. :dunce:

Is he actually claiming that "The Flushing of the Koran" was some demented kind of performance art?! His rug must be on too tight or something.

[Fire Walk With Me]

5. Haha! There's his out for face-saving

It was Carrot Top doing performance art! No one would care if we handed Carrot Top over to the Muslims! A win-win situation.

[noiretextatique]

6. i'll second that

:dunce:

[eleny]

3. Is there an anthropologist in the house???

Someone needs to whisper into Shit Spume's ear that Muslims in the Middle East ARE NOT AMERICA-A-A-A-A-A-A-NS!

Edit - I hate it when I forget to spell check.

[KennedyGuy]

4. He may have said Christ...

catch it on the re-run if they don't edit out the piss comment. He IS becomming unhinged.

[eleny]

7. I think you meant to respond to Kama Aina

[11cents]

8. "Piss Christ" is a photograph

Not an "art exhibit where the cross is dipped in piss." It goes without saying that Mr. Ugly has never seen it.

[AP]

10. I believe it was a cross in a jar of urine, and not a photograph.

[11cents]

12. No, it's a photograph

It's a photograph of a cross in a jar of urine. A beautiful photograph of a cross in a jar of urine. Serrano is a practicing Catholic, and the photo has, IMHO, obvious Christian implications.

[AP]

9. Oh, I'm sure if Piss Christ was by an Iraqi artist, Rummy, Powell and Bush

would have included it in their justification for invading Iraq.

The question is, would they have been able to find it?

[madrchsod]

11. what? the koran=jesus?

the koran is a book ,jesus was a person, the koran "thinks" jesus and his mom were ok people..just what fucking planet do these people live on?

[Gold Metal Flake]

13. To repukes 2 wrongs = right

I could care less about Piss Christ, and I don't think it was "wrong". But, if Shit Fume was offended, you would think he would have empathy.

[riverwalker]

14. how dare they disrespect an instrument of torture

like that! Imagine, pissing on a device used by Romans to torture and crucify victims.

[Bluebear]

15. "you didn't see christians rioting"

A. No, you saw them want to cut off all funding for the arts.

B. No foreign government's agents dipped Jesus in urine. How wexactly is this the same?

[eridani]

16. What I first thought when I heard about Piss Christ

The first thing that entered my mind was the Taoist saying "Where is the Tao? In urine and excrement. Cleave the rock--there am I." Serrano, a devout Catholic, may have been going for a Taoist representation of Christ here, Christ sanctifying the piss instead of the piss degrading Christ. He also had a print made by soaking paper in milk and impressing the image of Christ into it while the paper was still wet. He called it "Milk Christ," and didn't get nearly as much notoriety.

And then there was the Ken Kesey story, which I can't find online, in which he described dozing off in front of the TV one night, and wakening to a vision of the crucified Christ surrounded by a vivid golden glow. Turned out it was a story about Piss Christ. Interesting that when the aesthetic reaction comes first, it is one of reverence and awe, and only later does the intellectual knowledge that the golden color is piss change this perception. Serrano may have been trying to make that point as well.