Censored Art Video Protest at National Portrait Gallery

[pobio111]

Censorship is wrong, but I don't get how ants crawling over Jesus is gay sex.

[definingimage]

Do a video like this about Muhammad... The President would get pissed and the US would get bombed

[Inbreederkiller4444]

That makes sense to me and I'm a Christian. For one the image the ants are engulfing is that of Cesar Borgia not Jesus, and the ants are an analogy of all the gullible closed minded members of my faith who still believe Jesus is a white hippie and forget that God demanded we not have an image of the creator!

[LucyRochafication]

this makes no sense, if someone made a video of how gays shouldn't exist or something wouldn't gay people (or people who support them) also protest about taking it down? i think so

[ebecker2000]

@LucyRochafication What is it that you think that the artist thinks should not exist?

[actionsauce5]

Some people today seem to think that great art is pissing in the snow.

[flyingsaucer66]

Um...aren't ants God's creatures too? I'm thinking Jesus himself would not have much problem with this.

[deecee10000]

The artist had every right to be hateful towards the self-righteous bigot christians. In fact, I'm covering a picture of Jesus with shit right now. If Christians care so much about cheesy pictures and cheap plastic images of their "God", maybe they should think twice when picking their enemies.

[Mikkicarlexi]

this is all stupid..as a Catholic the only thing I see out this video is the need to pray for these people....and you wonder why when disasters happen they say its mother nature and science...well just so you know your punishment is coming and it won't be long now....but Jesus is merciful and he still loves you all you need to do is repent!

[Myaka2001]

The agenda of the President of the United States of America and the Democrats is nearly identical to that of the Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America and the far left Institute for Policy Studies.

If you want to know what Obama will propose tomorrow, read what the Marxists are advocating today

[ebecker2000]

@Myaka2001 Well not according to the Communists. Take a look at "Communists Talk About Obama's Policies" at on ebecker200 youtube channel or just add this to youtube.com

/watch?v=WHhwghsUFfs

Then let us know what you think.

[bryanrego11]

Can someone explain to me the symbolism of the ants crawling over Jesus? If the video is trying to "represent the suffering through Christ of every human being" why are ants necessary? Why not just a flash of the cross?

[johnfromberkeley]

i'm amused by what scares conservatives. what a bunch of scaredy-cats!

[Bassist10288]

I think the coins on the ground are very provocative as well. Maybe it signifies pity, or just the selling out of religion.

[Frampa]

First Jesus died on the Cross to create Salvation, he was lifted up to show the world what he did.

Second the Cross is in the dirt where the ants are and this is a disgrace.

But nobody have seen Jesus in Person no one knows how he look like.

You should not create a Figure and call it God, you have not seen him.

[avatarmn]

Christians are hilarious. Gruesome crucifixes in every Catholic church and home, a snuff film about Jesus... all that's wonderful. But if a bug treads on him, all hell breaks loose.

[Myaka2001]

Do this to the muslim God and they will cut your head off...everything is all one sided... lets do a painting of muslim god and see what happens.

[ebecker2000]

@Myaka2001 Good question. What if you took the body of Mohamed, the God of the Muslims in a similar way? To illustrate the ravages of AIDS? Show it ravaged. If you believe that every BODY is a God - then all life is sacred. Be it Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha or whatever or whoever is your God. Do you believe that all live is sacred?

[Myaka2001]

@ebecker2000 No I personally do NOT believe in Oprah, and were all Gods.. Jesus actually was Gods son, but he as as one spiritually with GOD. But all life is special. . Yes , even those babies aborted before they had a chance to live is sacred.. I suppose you are for killing unborn babies . Liberals seem to be a bit twisted in some of their thinking.

[ebecker2000]

Dear @Myaka2001 The video is not about killing babies furthermore you have every right to believe in your God. The video is not an attack any God. If you hold all life sacred, as I think that you do - then try to understand the intention of the Artist. Yes it does provoke - into an affirmation that all life is sacred.

[housetaboo]

@ebecker2000 yea but i have the full 4 min video and in the video he pulls his dick out and jerks off , i love how these art fags say its the cross with ants that people are so up set with , but its the whole video we dont like ! and since we dont like it they say we are right wing , they know this art is attacking one religion in the name of art but we are just common folk and need to shut up is what they think !

[housetaboo]

@Myaka2001 amen !

[avatarmn]

@Myaka2001  I despair of how often I see this argument. Christians complaining that if only they were crazier and more murderous, they'd be as respected as Muslims.

[Myaka2001]

@avatarmn I did not say that.........I am saying that it is all one sided for the muslims..

[avatarmn]

@Myaka2001 Well, you're wrong. Muslims get offended all the time. Mosques being built all over the country are protested, there was "draw the prophet Mohammed day", and Koran burnings. And this video isn't even meant to offend Christians. It used a sad, uncomfortable image to make people sad and uncomfortable. He's obviously sympathetic to ant-covered Jesus. It sure sounds like you're saying if Christians would behead people no one would dare offend them like this.

[Myaka2001]

@avatarmn yea, over everything and they are catered to...it is disgusting...they should not be allowed to do things other religions can't do...We know what they are doing..trying to push their beliefs onto the world...push push push ...they are worshipping satan as only satan would have such barbaric and cruel things .. why are they allowed when no one else...I say run em all out of america so they can live in their barbaric muslim's ridiculous and cruel laws

[avatarmn]

@Myaka2001 Catered to? You're a lunatic. Who's stopping anyone from building a Christian church wherever they want in America? How many Muslims are in Congress? One. There are 537 Christians and Jews. Muslims in America are subject to the same laws. The ones in Muslim countries have a tendancy to be barbaric, due to imperialism their religion hasn't reformed yet. They're a few hundred years behind. They're no worse than Christians were a few hundred years ago.

[Myaka2001]

@avatarmn well your blind to what is going on in the world if you don't know their PLAN is to take over the world, even Obama caters to the prayers meetings and dodges national day of prayer for christiansand on and on it goes. Tend to be barbaric.. ??? outrageous...can't believe people are stupid enough to fall for it, just as satan wants...they will spend eternity in hell. Christians believe in love and forgiveness but they believe in cruel beatings& murder.....FOOLS

[avatarmn]

@Myaka2001 I know their plan is to take over the world. So and it's Christians' plan too. But here in the US. if anyone is winning the fight to take over the country, it's Christians. A few hundred years ago, Christians were just as bad as Muslims are today. But I bet you forgive those Christians, and don't say they were doing Satan's work. Muslims however... they are the competition, so they're unforgivable and can't be redeemed.

[Myaka2001]

@avatarmn by the way I do have a copy of the islamic kuran

[avatarmn]

@Myaka2001 Check your Bible, too. It says all the terrible things the Koran says. It also calls for the death of unbelievers, and all that shit.

[Myaka2001]

@avatarmn don't even go there....when Jesus came back to teach us the truth, he said to forgive as you would want yourself forgiven... christian DO NOT believe in killing unbelievers, as we are all have freedom to choose, muslims FORCE AND KILL.. Not the christian way, but way back the romans were corrupt..

[Myaka2001]

@avatarmn Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years.

[Myaka2001]

@avatarmn More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.

Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years

[Myaka2001]

@avatarmn We also know the reason for building their mosque on 9/11 spot because it is their way of showing they won...as they have done this all over the world... either you do't know much about their goals or you are lying covering up for your god..we not as dumb as you are hoping...altho their are a lot of ignorant people who do NOT understand what is really happeing....but many of us do know

[avatarmn]

@Myaka2001 @Myaka2001 Christians don't believe in killing unbelievers ANY MORE. They used to but they reformed. If Islam is going to reform and stop being so barbaric and following those commandments to kill that are in the Koran (and in the Bible), then reform is going to come from a place like a Mosque in New York City, run by a guy so positive to Americans and Christianity that Bush himself worked with the him. That kind of person building a mosque would show the terrorists LOST on 9/11.

[Myaka2001]

@avatarmn 19 Muslim hijackers killed more innocents in two hours on September 11th than the number of American criminals executed in the last 65 years.

[Myaka2001]

@avatarmn More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined.

[avatarmn]

@Myaka2001 Yeah, now you've got nothing to say about that. The last president, a supposedly devout Christian, caused a million Muslims to die in Iraq. The reason more people die in modern times than in old times is because populations are higher and weapons are better. It's just that when one Muslim kills one Christian, you call it religious terrorism. But when one Christian kills a million Muslims, you call it patriotism.

[Myaka2001]

@avatarmn I got plenty to say about how stupid it is to compare the evilness of christians and muslims because christians believe in love and peace and NOT VIOLENCE. We have to defend ourselves from this barbaric religion that is only to deceive and lie to achieve their goal as their kuran says that is ok..NOT IN THE BIBLE... Lying is a sin , so is murder. Muslims are deceiving and I WILL NOT FALL FOR THE LIES..WE KNOW BETTER.

[avatarmn]

@Myaka2001 The only thing twisted about the FACT that Bush's war has killed a million Muslims is Bush himself. And are you calling him a progressive president? What are you smoking? And do I really need to quote all of the lines in the Bible that identify what people should be killed for what? I won't waste my time, I don't have the space to write it here. Lets just say "Leviticus" it's fucking full of murder commandments. Even Jesus himself says to kill those who don't bow to him.

[Myaka2001]

@avatarmn all you can do is keep twisting to suit yourself, but the facts show more muslims are a danger to civilization with their fanaticism....I don't give a crap about our progressive presidents... there is a lot of corruption in our government and we need to get all progressive OUT

[Bassist10288]

@Myaka2001 Civilization is a danger to itself. Here you are arguing about faith when the argument should be about censorship. What other society engaged in heavy censorship? The Third Reich. And who makes us censor and quibble amongst ourselves? I don't know, could it be SATAN?

[Myaka2001]

@Bassist10288 Yes it is.. There is a danger of losing our right to be christians too.. more and more I hear how the government is doing things they should not against christians yet he bend over backward for damn muslim barbaris...How long will it be before we lose everything including our country..Obama and those like him want to collapse our entire system, so it can be morphed into socialism/communism...

[Bassist10288]

@Myaka2001 i don't know about calling people barbarians... look at the crusades. there are radical fashions though that are clinging to a by-gone era. People need to be good little christians, jews, whatever, or piss off. Religion isn't the answer if you don't follow it. Maybe people need to just start with something simple, like thinking about the reactions to their actions. The Golden Rule.

[Myaka2001]

@Bassist10288 See, now that is ridiculous..the reason was because it symbolized our founders and the first tea party .. that is not barbaric.. are you so warped you see the difference.. they did not hurt anybody, muslims kill their own daughters if they do not obey their radical ways.. it IS barbaric and EVIL

[Bassist10288]

@Myaka2001 as barbaric as the race that came here in 1492 and slaughtered the natives of the carribean? South america? The Middle East? Most Christians don't follow their fatih. Man is barbaric.

[Myaka2001]

@Bassist10288 Well, I would like to think we have come a long way since 1492...geez....so, who cares if some people don't live right.. God gave us all a choice who we would follow..murder is the worst sin and yet muslims say its ok to kill their own family...crazy;. if you can't see that, then you are hopeless...it IS EVIL

[Bassist10288]

@Myaka2001 I don't think it's the faith, i think it's the perversion of faith. Using faith as an excuse, the way a child would excuse hitting another kid, that's wrong. Comparing religions and grouping all Muslims as "barbaric" is wrong. There are all sorts of people you might call very loving things, or hateful things, but your average human isn't evil or saintly. You think victims of suicide bombings are crying to Allah in joy or in pain? Your God is their God. The God of Abraham.

[omniunown]

@Myaka2001 I find the above post far more offensive than the video

[HaydnRocker]

What if I want to show art of Barack Obama being hung with from a tree with people in white KKK outfits all around? Would that be art? What if I want to hang Axel Rose's famous t-shirt that said "AIDS KILLS FAGS DEAD!" on the museum's wall? Would that be art? You are a bunch of soul-less evil FREAKS! And some things should not be placed in public view! I don't hate anyone, but I hate to see the moral decay of our society. When we let this TRASH be considered art, we have gone over the edge.

[housetaboo]

@HaydnRocker yea these art fags are into naked kids and hitler , there is a gay bar in d.c called eagles and the gay's have sex under a swastika and they call it art .

[Myaka2001]

@HaydnRocker I would be thankful to see our deceiving false president hanging from a tree...he deserves it for lying to americans and forcing his agenda onto us against our will....he is a monster

[x3viviCore]

I'm gay but I don't find art like this any interesting..it's stirturbing...omg,... can't we all just fuck religion..and why make a fuzz about it anyways..

[housetaboo]

i love when they say there here to oppose censorship . yea ok but there the first ones to come after you for saying marry christmas in public or goverment run schools or your child had a cross neckless in school and it upset the teacher and all fat women who cant get laid ! lets see would these people defend the art of having a pic of a gay man burning in hell ? no they would not i would not eather but they only defend anti christian art . hate in the name of art is what it truly is !

[housetaboo]

i love when they say there here to oppose censorship . yea ok but there the fist ones to come after you for saying mary christmas in public or goverment run schools or your child had a cross neckless in school and it upset the teacher and all fat women who cant get laid ! lets see would these people defend the art of having a pic of a gay man burning in hell ? no they would not i would not eather but they only defend anti christian art . hate in the name of art is what it truly is !

[KJBrancaccio]

Interesting.

[deedeehalleck]

thanks eddie. thanks for not water marking it.

[ebecker2000]

@deedeehalleck Faint Water Mark - solely to discourage commercial use - all others may freely repost.

[housetaboo]

@ebecker2000 these are nothing but art fag nazi's who jump at any chance to show there hate for religion paid for by tax payers and you know it ! we know it ! stop hate in the name of art . just because your gay dont mean you can disguise hate in the name of art . and use aids as a way to spread your intolerance. this art was about gay rights and aids yea thats it . ok we know you people are the real nazi's !

[GirlPaint]

@housetaboo The Smithsonian, of which the National Portrait Gallery is part, is a public trust serving the interests of all Americans. It betrays its mission the moment it ejects a work whose viewpoint some dislike.

[housetaboo]

@GirlPaint not some but most people find this art filled with hate and we not need to be gay to see it ! did you like the part in the video " a fire in my belly " when he pulls his dick out and jerks off to the cross and mary , yea that was a very cool you think

very art fag snob asshole shit your into nazi bitch !

[housetaboo]

@deedeehalleck you know funny ? the taxpayers own the platform and so the taxpayers should decide what is presented on that platform . The federally funded National Portrait Gallery, one of the museums of the Smithsonian Institution, is currently showing an exhibition that features images of an ant-covered Jesus, male genitals, naked brothers kissing, men in chains, Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts, and a painting the Smithsonian itself describes in the show's catalog as "homoerotic."