Fresh hell? Yes, just another attempt by trendy lefty Church of England apostates to make their venerable if shrinking slice of the UK's religious equation more relevant to the unchurched masses. How? By decorating Canterbury Cathedral with a graffiti "art" exhibition.
It's interactive, apparently. You write down questions, send them off and an, ahem, artist turns them into ersatz pseudo-pop graffiti which is then displayed on the walls and pillars of the beautiful cathedral. It looks like this:
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Beautiful, isn't it, and so likely to draw in the crowds and pack the pews of the dismally declining denomination. I mean to say, who wouldn't be attracted to worship God in all his numinous mystery in England's foremost cathedral by graffiti posing as religious art? So much for some 2000 years of Christian aesthetics.
The genius behind this installation is Alex Vellis, poet and "curator of Jacquiline Creswell's collaboration with marginalised communities and a team of skilled artists." How very awesome, and that's what his "art" in Canterbury cathedral's all about, per the Daily Mail:
Language is the people who speak it, and graffiti is the language of the unheard. By temporarily graffitiing the inside of Canterbury Cathedral, we join a chorus of the forgotten, the lost, and the wondrous. People who wanted to make their mark, to say 'I was here', and to have their etchings carry their voice through the centuries.
Wondrous? Yes indeed, wonder at the mawkish suicide of a once great part of God's Church and its desecration of England's principal cathedral. Alex Willis was organizer of the Sex Work Symposium in Canterbury in 2019. Why? Because of course he was. On topic, the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral is David Montief, who lives with his boyfriend David Hamilton in a "civil partnership."
You can imagine, dear readers, what Augustine of Canterbury would make of this. Come back, Reginald Pole, we need you.
LSP
12 comments:
Jesus would be screaming, yelling, scourging and kicking the ever-living dogsqueeze out of the church elders and anyone involved in this.
Sweet Mary, Mother of God, God used to level places for less, until He promised us He wouldn't do that anymore. Of course, that was because He said we had grown up enough. I'm wondering if He's reconsidering His decision.
Crusty Old TV Tech here. Even 'Enery the 'Aith would be yelling "Off with his head!" for this one. Is there no shame left in the (former) Church of (the country formerly known as) England? St Thomas More, all the Holy Saints of England, pray for us.
I never considered bringing a few cans of spray paint to church with me to express myself. Will the congregation at Lake Whitney, TX be doing that? Are they expected to be dressed in their Sunday best while tagging or can they just wear old "Holey" t-shirts and jeans? We need photos of the wokeness.
What's next? A rap mass?
My dear Beans, there surely comes a point at which the chalice of divine wrath is full and runs over.
Right on, Tech, I make that prayer too.
LL, when you next appear at the Missions you MUST bring SPRAY PAINT. And leave your tag, obvs.
Hasn't that been done already, pewster? Behold the thousands who were converted.
Been done. And pretty much any Mass after Vatican 2 has had less and less attendants while the Latin Mass draws more and more. Hmmm...
So we've gone from the medieval masterpieces that all the great and not-so-big cathedrals and churches and even little chapels that were, well, masterpieces of carving and painting (see the restoration of Notre Dame de Paris for how beautiful the painted surfaces were in the 13th and 14th century) and the Sistine Chapel and the beauty of all of the pre-Renaissance and Renaissance and even some post-Renaissance alter backs and pieces to... urban underpass.
What next, druggies shooting up in Church? Homeless and just nasty people pissing and pooping inside holy ground? Gunfights and machete fights? (Used to be one didn't bring arms into a church, or at least didn't dare draw one's arms lest one find oneself excommunicated and have to go to the Holy See (the pope for non-Catholics) for to get the excommunication removed.)
So friggin tired of this carp. Can Pope Leo call a Crusade against the leadership of the CoE like one did against the Albigensians?
I can't say I expect more given the leadership of the organization.
And the people who have not left are just as guilty.
I'm truly shocked, and it takes a lot to shock me these days.
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