Religious Perversion

[Joe Allonby]

John Hancock: famous for his large signature.

I guess that's it because some stars shine brighter than others. Can't
give too much credit to those godless Massachusetts liberals.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:54 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> from a Quaker friend of mine. think its a nice rebuttal
>
>  find it creepy, too, especially seeing Jesus is portrayed holding a
> document that counts enslaved persons as only 3/5 of a human being
> each; fortunately the real Jesus loves the designated good guys and
> designated bad guys alike. Liberal professor, would you please stand
> up next to George Washington? (Bring your book with you. Darwin
> couldn't tell a lie, either.) Lawyer with the hundred dollar bills,
> would you please hand them to Satan for safekeeping and kneel next to
> Abraham Lincoln? Haym Solomon, who bankrolled the American Revolution,
> would you stand with Alexander Hamilton, please? Keep your prayer
> shawl on, and your frontlets; you're being portrayed with the Messiah.
> Sojourner Truth, please stand behind Jesus and give him a big hug;
> He's your Eternal Darling who made you able even to love the white
> folks, and you were one of only 99 historical Americans to register 99
> or better on the sanctometer. Andrew ("only good Indian is a dead
> Indian") Jackson didn't show up for this photo op, I guess because he
> was afraid that there might be Indians. So in the Presidents' area
> let's put Sequoyah in Jackson's place. Jackson never gave his people
> an alphabet.
>
> Let's see, there's something missing... America's conscientious
> objectors to war? America's Muslims? The Shakers? The Ghost Dancers?
> The IWW? John Woolman? (I noticed, too, Rich, that there weren't any
> Sicilian-Americans in the picture.) Oh, I've got it.
>
> America's earthworms! America's farmers would be nowhere without the
> earthworms! And they're nice and petite, and they can represent all of
> America's plants and animals, and their guardian spirits. Jesus, the
> Firstborn of the Creation, wouldn't have forgotten them.
>
> Well, we'll just have to revise the painting a little bit.
>
> On 10/7/09, John Pendergast <jpender at siue.edu> wrote:
>> I wasn't irony and satire that died after 9-11, but clearly allegory.
>> Modern Christians do not understand allegory -- why would a justice who
>> is weeping over, and therefore showing remorse over, Roe v Wade be in
>> Satan's corner? And a pregnant woman who wants to keep her baby?
>>
>>
>> rich wrote:
>>> welcome to American National Socialist Fundamentalism
>>>
>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/06/jon-mcnaughton-painting-s_n_311912.html
>>>
>>> Artist Jon McNaughton of Utah has created a painting inspired by a
>>> vision he received during the 2008 elections. The painting -- titled
>>> "One Nation Under God" -- depicts Jesus surrounded by characters from
>>> American history plus Satan. Some of the characters are actual people
>>> (Ronald Reagan, James Madison ) and some are archetypes (handicapped
>>> child, liberal news reporter). The "liberal news reporter," along with
>>> the professor clutching Darwin's Origin Of Species and the judge
>>> weeping over Roe vs. Wade are huddled in the lower right hand corner
>>> of the painting, next to Satan. (The pregnant woman is also in Satan's
>>> corner.)
>>>
>>>
>>
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