Oh Sweet Jesus
So my comic teacher made brief mention of this and sent me and loony_lucifer on a hunt. I'm sort of shocked we found it with so little info. I'm more upset that I saw the title in one of the first links I saw and didn't click it.
"Some days you just come across news that is so unexpected you have to sit back and reread it just to make sure you didn't read something that wasn't there. This is just such a news bit Rich Johnston has a bit about a photo causing quite a stir in South America. Of course the stir is from the Catholic Church an it's not like it takes a whole lot to set off someone within the Church. The (award winning) photo in question depicts a tender kiss between Jesus Christ and the Man of Steel.
From CBR's Lying in the Gutters:
An Argentinian photomontage entitled "The Greatest and most beautiful and most heroical love story of all time" by Mauro Guzman is under threat as a Catholic lawyer has demanded that the mayor of Rosario withdraw it from the Castagnino Museum. The piece won the top prize at the Buenos Aires art fair last year."
Really I think this is the greatest thing ever. Not only does it piss off the anti-gay people, it pisses off (some) Christians AND for the Superman fans it makes perfect sense. There are some people who get REALLY pissed when anyone even mentions the idea of any connection between Superman and Jesus (no really, I know a few people who got mad because his arms are out in a very Christ on the Cross type way). Yes, because this guy in space sends his only son to earth where he runs around saving us all. Not at all like Jesus. No we crucified that bastard. We actually like Supes even though he runs around in tights and a cape and can really be a dick... and he's fucking Lex Luthor, but that's aside from the point... I've forgotten where I was going with this. Oh right, Superman = Jesus. Accept it people. I may not want Jor-el as the holy father of all things, but I can atleast admit that there are far too many parallels.
Oh well, at least they're not condemning it for Superman getting stabbed too lustfully.
Some of the comments were golden as well, such as:
"I am outraged by this. If Jesus was walking around, kissing superheroes, he'd totally be kissing Batman first."
"Nah, Batman's too dark and emo. Jesus would go for the goody-goody boy scout."
"Maybe Jesus would be into twinks and it should be Superboy or Robin."
"Some days you just come across news that is so unexpected you have to sit back and reread it just to make sure you didn't read something that wasn't there. This is just such a news bit Rich Johnston has a bit about a photo causing quite a stir in South America. Of course the stir is from the Catholic Church an it's not like it takes a whole lot to set off someone within the Church. The (award winning) photo in question depicts a tender kiss between Jesus Christ and the Man of Steel.
From CBR's Lying in the Gutters:
An Argentinian photomontage entitled "The Greatest and most beautiful and most heroical love story of all time" by Mauro Guzman is under threat as a Catholic lawyer has demanded that the mayor of Rosario withdraw it from the Castagnino Museum. The piece won the top prize at the Buenos Aires art fair last year."
Really I think this is the greatest thing ever. Not only does it piss off the anti-gay people, it pisses off (some) Christians AND for the Superman fans it makes perfect sense. There are some people who get REALLY pissed when anyone even mentions the idea of any connection between Superman and Jesus (no really, I know a few people who got mad because his arms are out in a very Christ on the Cross type way). Yes, because this guy in space sends his only son to earth where he runs around saving us all. Not at all like Jesus. No we crucified that bastard. We actually like Supes even though he runs around in tights and a cape and can really be a dick... and he's fucking Lex Luthor, but that's aside from the point... I've forgotten where I was going with this. Oh right, Superman = Jesus. Accept it people. I may not want Jor-el as the holy father of all things, but I can atleast admit that there are far too many parallels.
Oh well, at least they're not condemning it for Superman getting stabbed too lustfully.
Some of the comments were golden as well, such as:
"I am outraged by this. If Jesus was walking around, kissing superheroes, he'd totally be kissing Batman first."
"Nah, Batman's too dark and emo. Jesus would go for the goody-goody boy scout."
"Maybe Jesus would be into twinks and it should be Superboy or Robin."