Popular culture is a representation of current ethics and mores in a society, but it is also a teaching mechanism designed to inculcate a rising generation with certain beliefs and standards. It becomes more difficult to measure the effect of these cultural instruments when they are presented as historical markers that are being remembered rather than cultural icons that are being celebrated.
If there is an exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art that shows the Virgin Mary covered in a heap of dung, for example, is that really merely a display of the artists personal vision of religion, or is it meant to proselytize and convert viewers to the view of the artist? And if the Metropolitan hosts the display, is it also the objective of the museum to convince patrons and to suggest this is the proper way to think since the display is prominently displayed in a public venue where the cultural elites go? It is not such a simple thing when there are publicly displayed icons that imply societal acceptance and promotion. And perhaps that is why athiests are so anxious to have symbols of Chrisianity such as crosses and manger scenes removed from any and all public display.
Which makes the upcoming displays planned for New York and London next month a bit of a conundrum. Last year, the Islamic State or ISIS destroyed a 2,000 year old temple in Palmyra, Syria, because it represented a cultural history that conflicts with their beliefs and religious ethics. Now, in a gesture of defiance, Harvard University, the University of Oxford, and Dubai’s Museum of the Future are joint venturing on a project to restore some of the lost architecture as a “gesture of defiance” to ISIS. But considering the historical background and cultural meaning of what ISIS destroyed, could it be that they were correct in removing an icon that represents a cultural abomination?
See page 2 for more background on this project:
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I’m glad Jesus is coming soon .
I hope this is a joke!!!
TEMPLE OF BAAL GOES BACK TO OLD TESTAMENT, BAAL, A FALSE GOD THE YAHWEH HATED THOSE THAT WORSHIPPED IT! ANY SERIOUS BIBLE READERS OUT THERE CHECKING THIS OUT?
You can read a little about Baal in 1 kings18, Elijah killed all the Baal prophets there by a brook, none could escape. This was in the time of the evil king Ahab and Jezebel. I am sure God will condemn this if it happens in NYC.
Ya, that’s what we need…………………. NOT!
Several months ago, it was to go up in Times Square the 19th of this month, April, but I read later that they decided not to put it up here in the States, but were going ahead and putting it up in the Square of London. I just read at the last sentence, they won’t be erecting at Times Square in New York. I guess when the 19th rolls around this month, if they haven’t erected here, then this story is true.
What age are these people living in and what the Hell is going on? What Century do people want to live in, mostly Democrats? What is God thinking with all this? Sacrifices? I can tell now that War will begin and those children’s lives they take will be avenged. I’ll start it. For we are living the 20th Centuries not Before Christ or After Christ. People that do this need Mental help and those that follow need Mental Help as well. Unions make sure you have your Trucks ready to bring these down. If you don’t you are just as bad as they are. This is blasphemy and terrifying. This is just like my nightmare I had where I saved a child from death. This sends chills to me for this is exactly the type of dream I had in these 7 years of Obama in office and where others have found the same dream in their lives. People that do this are stone-cold and sinful and springs from their weaknesses in life. They abhor moral values and their foul smell seeps on the earth and they should die for what they do.
All thy children…rejoice in thy known true selves…as we wait for him………………
The last of the seals are almost broken prepair your selves
They’re already sacrificing children when they abort their babies