None of these objection they do are ever in earnest anyhow, they're done en mass during the holidays to raise "awareness" (i.e. solicit contributions from the public) because that's when most people are feeling charitable, and is commonly when most bullshit non-profits line their coffers.

The Folsom Street poster was probably just too good to pass up, with a major beverage conglomerate as the target.

Jesus replaced with a pile of hot wings does make me smile though. Mmm. Wings.

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But I doubt it.

And no I do not think that is right.
If they reacted to the other they should react to this but I doubt they will.

"Take of these hot wings, eat; this is my body." Jesus likewise took the cup, blessed it, and then gave it to them, "Drink ye all of it; For this Redhook is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins..."

Hooters would cave. They need good Catholics. Bad.

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Which is being hosted the next few weeks by the fabulous James St. James!

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It makes me want chicken wings for christmas

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But yah, shitty art.

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But this? Yeah. This is mocking the actual religious figures, and that pisses me off.

She's still totally within her rights to do it. But I will happily be looking away.

Well, that would be Andrew Sullivan, who says, in John Wayne baritone no doubt, "My general rule with 'brave' outsider anti-religious art is to ask if they'd do to Islam what they do routinely to Catholicism. Most don't. Poseurs are often cowards."

Of course, what Sullivan ignores is that Americans interested in critiquing, satirizing, or even offending their own culture might just not be as obssessed about Islam as his phobia-ridden Catholic ass.

Like Christopher Hitchens or Theo Van Gogh don't and didn't attack all sides. Like there was no Mohammed cartoon debacle. Right, artists and thinkers do nothing but shrink before the mighty Islamofascism. And you better insult the whole world if you're gonna insult Catholicism, or else you're a coward. Sheesh.

When I plugged that into my ethical calculator along with the Hooters angle, all the magic smoke came out of it and it doesn't work anymore.

Can anyone here help me add that up?

Jesus getting shit on in a South Park episode before a benign image of Muhammad is censored was far more thought-provoking and subversive than this Hooters virgin which looks more like tacky corporate advertising than an artistic critique of societal and religious norms. Meh.

The Folsom Street Fair post was amusing. This, 20 years after the Piss Christ, is just banal.

The use of icons within the Catholic Church - as powerful propaganda and tacky postcards - is completely different to the use of imagery within the Islamic tradition. Therefore the way one satirizes and critiques the religion are not going to be comparable.

I'm sure the "Would you do it for Islam?" question has force in other areas - but not when it comes to icons and iconoclasm.

"Oh the humanity!!"