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Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« on: November 22, 2017, 06:23:39 pm »
A Catholic school in Australia has covered up a statue of a saint giving a loaf of bread to a boy after complaints that it was too suggestive.

The statue of St. Martin de Porres at Blackfriars Priory School in suburban Adelaide shows the bread being held at crotch level as the smiling boy gazes up with a hand reaching for the loaf.

“The two-dimensional concept plans for the statue were viewed and approved by the Executive Team in May but upon arrival the three-dimensional statue was deemed by the Executive to be potentially suggestive,” principal Simon Cobiac said in an apology posted on Facebook.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/catholic-school-statue-covered-being-074924831.html



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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2017, 06:24:15 pm »
Oh, come on.  It seems.......fine......

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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2017, 06:29:37 pm »
Is it suggestive, or are depraved Beavis and Butthead minds just triggered?
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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2017, 06:37:20 pm »
Now the relative height of adults and children, becomes politically incorrect?

Let me know when the world returns to common sense and sanity.

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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2017, 06:55:10 pm »
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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2017, 07:01:34 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on November 22, 2017, 06:37:20 pm
Let me know when the world returns to common sense and sanity.
Sorry, that ship has sailed.
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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2017, 07:16:03 pm »
Quote from: kidd on November 22, 2017, 06:55:10 pm


Seems kind of extreme to make it a madrassa.
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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2017, 08:31:56 pm »
It is sorta weird.
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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2017, 08:35:14 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on November 22, 2017, 06:29:37 pm
Is it suggestive, or are depraved Beavis and Butthead minds just triggered?
I blame Freud.
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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2017, 08:40:50 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on November 22, 2017, 06:37:20 pm
Now the relative height of adults and children, becomes politically incorrect?

Let me know when the world returns to common sense and sanity.

That ain't never gonna happen.

Generations have been brainwashed into abject stupidity.
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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2017, 09:16:39 pm »
That sculptor knew full well what he was doing.
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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2017, 09:22:06 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on November 22, 2017, 09:16:39 pm
That sculptor knew full well what he was doing.


I agree.

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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2017, 09:30:42 pm »
Looks innocent to me.  Just a Saintly dude holding a potato in his hand and some ragamuffin trying to take it from him. 
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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2017, 09:35:31 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on November 22, 2017, 09:16:39 pm
That sculptor knew full well what he was doing.

I don't know.  The article says it was designed in Viet Nam, and maybe they're not quite as sex-obsessed as Westerners are.

It may just be weird, you know.......

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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #14 on: November 22, 2017, 09:56:27 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on November 22, 2017, 09:35:31 pm
I don't know.  The article says it was designed in Viet Nam, and maybe they're not quite as sex-obsessed as Westerners are.

It may just be weird, you know.......

Or, you could argue, even more so.
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« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2017, 10:19:23 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on November 22, 2017, 09:56:27 pm
Or, you could argue, even more so.

Yeah........... I suppose.   :shrug:


(I just think the guy's a lousy artist).
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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2017, 11:46:19 pm »
j myrle wrote:
"That sculptor knew full well what he was doing."

I have to concur.
There's sumthin' about this sculpture that ... well, it ain't quite right.

Time to re-commission it.
From a different sculptor this time.

The guy who did this ain't no Michelangelo...
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Re: Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2017, 11:54:55 pm »
We can say, without a doubt, that loaf isn’t unleavened.
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