by Arlos » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:44 pm
I seem to recall a bit of a furor back in the 80s over an art photograph, Piss Christ, which showed a plastic crucifix floating in a bucket of urine. I seem to recall the photographer being the target of a number of death threats from whackjob christians as a result.
BTW, there's a huge fringe of whackjob christians: the White Supremicists. Most of them consider themselves devout christians, and feel that wiping out blacks is God's Work. Hell, the opening line of the KKK website is: "Welcome to the Ku Klux Klan! Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America!"
I doubt I'd get much argument when I claim that the KKK are a bunch of violent, murdering whackjobs, eh? Not that much difference between kidnap + beheading and kidnap + lynching, really.
-Arlos