Gives "He That Eats My Flesh" a Whole New Meaning

Curators at the museum of Vienna’s Roman Catholic Cathedral
put on display a set of artwork as part of a retrospective honoring Austria’s cherished artist Alfred Hrdlicka, who turned 80 earlier this year. Among the works presented is this painting, which depicts the Last Supper as a homoerotic orgy.

This bears repeating. The Viennese Roman Catholic Church. Put up a picture of the Last Supper, showing Jesus as gay.

And none of the officials at the church saw a problem with this.

Hmm.

The museum’s director defends both Hrdlicka’s work and his decision to host the artist’s controversial versions of biblical imagery in a museum tied to the Catholic Church.
"We think Hrdlicka is entitled to represent people in this carnal, drastic way," Bernhard Boehler said in his small museum office, across the street from Vienna’s imposing St. Stephan’s Cathedral.

People. We're not talking John Doe here, pal. We're talking a literal or figurative diety, depending on who you ask. Being pictured jerking off his apostles.

"I don’t see any blasphemy here," he said, gesturing at a Crucifixion picture showing a soldier simultaneously beating Jesus and holding his genitals. "People can imagine what they want to."

Of course. I totally understand. A roman sodomizing the Son of God. And there's no blasphemy.

I gotta tell you...I know the Church is trying to be a little more mainstream, but I think this may be taking it *bit* too far. Maybe this is their way of trying to appease the millions of gay and lesbian Catholics back into the fold.

"Look, look, it's okay, Jesus liked a little tickle tickle too!"

Can you imagine the rewrite on that whole New Testament? Maybe Mary Magdalene was really a Mark. Perhaps this is why Yeshua...30 years old and never married, btw...wasn't into chicks. We know he touched the lepers and the lame...but WHERE did he touch them?

Hey, this goes a long way towards explaining the current problems in the Church, doesn't it? "No, my child...I'm not molesting you. I'm reenacting the Last Supper."

Think that'll hold up in court, Padre?

Happy Passover!