Where are all the liberals who complain about separation of church and state? Doesn't a museum hosting an exhibit portraying a cross and Jesus' suffering violate the separation of church and state to them?

And where are the cries for equal time for Muslims? Shouldn't we have ants crawling over Mohammed, too?

And why are those in opposition to this so unwilling to confront the accusation that they are opposed to the other aspects of the video clip, and that other scenes in the video bother them much more than the ants on the cross?

I'm dissapointed...all the PHD's out there in this subjectcy.

It's a Bob Marley morning...

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Cornbead, I'm sending you the cleaning bill for the coffee I just spewed everywhere!

OMG!1!! IT'S THE ANTY-CHRIST!!11

Donohue is one of millions of Christian antisemites. You reap what you sow.

The truly ridiculous part is that Christian theology teaches that the tortured, abused body of Christ is God incarnate to experience and understand the deepest of human suffering, including the devastation done to bodies by AIDS. Are ants crawling on a depiction of that broken, wounded body really doing worse to Christ than humans did? Really?"

Yes, you speak truly. Thank you for this thought and spirit-provoking essay.

It's obvious the artist wanted to offend devout Christians, so why is anyone surprised that they are offended? The issue is whether the federal government should subsidize such art. If the answer is yes, then I enthusiastically await the cartoons of Mohammad hanging in the gallery, and Mr. Evan’s full-throated support of such an exhibit.

AIDS is a simple disease to cure. Simply stop engaging in the depraved acts that cause it. Case close. Now let's move on to more interesting exhibits like ants crawling on Muhammad.
Posted by: BinkyLover | December 2, 2010 1:16 PM

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So, in your mind, getting AIDs from a blood transfusion because of my "non-AIDs" disease is "depraved activity"??!! WOW!!! You are truly STUPID!!! I hope you don't have an illness that requires blood... or maybe I do!

Self flagellating christians unite... Suffering and pain are to be embraced...

I understand the concept of the crucified Christ, though I'm no longer a Christian. At a recent wedding, the huge crucifix with the tortured Christ that hung over the altar was profoundly discomfiting to me. Only by making the crucifix a merely symbolic object (rather than understanding what it literally portrays) could one think that showing ants on it is worse than the original torture and execution.

Its interesting that whenever there is a legal conflict over the overt recognition given to the Christian religion in a nation that has "separation of church and state" as a fundamental principle, that the judicial decisions recognizing Christmas as a federal holiday or allowing "In God We Trust" on our money or requiring kids to say "under God" as part of the Pledge of Allegiance always allow the official recognition given to Christian religion because of its "cultural" rather than "religious" meaning and symbolism. Its ok to shove it down our throat because its "cultural". Yet when art treats religious symbolism as cultural, suddenly the religionists get all up in arms because their religion is being "attacked" and must be "protected".

They can't have it both ways - if it's religious, then it has no place having any official standing or place in a secular goverment by pretending that its cultural. If it's cultural, then it deserves no special protection because its religious. Its one or the other, but can't be both.

As a practicing Catholic I am not offended by this art. Meaning is what the beholder sees in the piece. I see the ants as predator priests who have abused the trust of many Catholics by the sexual abuse of minors.

As a practicing Catholic I am not offended by this art. Meaning is what the beholder sees in the piece. I see the ants as predator priests who have abused the trust of many Catholics by the sexual abuse of minors.

Here's where I see a problem with this, and if you remember "Piss Christ" which was far more offensive. The Christian's own bible (King James Version) in Exodus 20, layws out what are referred to as the 10 Commandments. Here's partial text:

"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them"

This seems to me that you shouldn't even have a crucific (God is a jealous God!) let alone "bow down" or "serve" it by complaining about a video that displays ants crawling on a crucifix.

Just what we need . . . another "debate" over a meaningless issue.

Show the video in a private art gallery. Don't ask me to pay for it. And please don't offer up the red herring that the exhibit is "privately funded." Taxpayers pay for the staff and the buildings.

Also, I find this controversey strange in a city like DC where a majority of the residents are fixated on "respect." Don't dis me. It's the worst sin.

The concept seems to work for some, but when it comes to Christianity, respect is off the table.

What a load of tripe. The ants on Christ in this exhibit is a statement to the fact that AIDS, which is entirely preventable by avoiding sin, has not been successfully cured despite outlandish levels of research funding (as compared to unpreventable diseases like cancer, which see far less funding per patient). It is a complaint that the requisite suffering has not been circumvented and not a recognition that sin should bring associated suffering. In other words, it expresses an opposite position of Christianity: That sin should have no consequences.

AIDS is a simple disease to cure. Simply stop engaging in the depraved acts that cause it. Case close. Now let's move on to more interesting exhibits like ants crawling on Muhammad.

How entertaining the Donohue Catholics who scare the hell out of their little kids with pictures and statues of a punctured, bleeding Jesus have a problem with a few ants.