Nice. Jefferson's spinning in his grave along with the other deist and agnostic presidents and founding fathers..... I wish they'd stop spreading the falsehood that The U.S. was founded as a christian nation.....
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um..isn't that one dude counting the money right next to the married woman he proposed polyandry? she's telling her husband that baby is not his. it's smith's.
sick, joe smith shouldn't be there. a stupid mormon must of painted this. no mos would be clueless. this mother focker who painted this must worship joe smith. praise to the man joe smith and his holy dick. Makes me sick!
The artist says that the people behind Christ represent all of those who helped make the country great, and all of those in the frong (except the pregnant lady) have been leading the country away from the constitution and towards socialism. I don't think Joseph Smith fits into either category.
She is pointing at the mother with the child with a disability and is saying to herself, "I want to keep my baby." She represents hope. Abortion is a heavy subject, but this artist believes strongly in the rights of the unborn child... Except for the pregnant woman in the lower right corner, these people symbolize those who have pushed our country towards Socialism. (The pregnant woman's place in the painting is explained on the website.)"
Actually notice the people in front of Jesus --- the "bad guys" are on his left, and the "good guys" on his right. Jeesh. There is no symbolism at all in this painting as you state, McNaughton, this is propaganda.
"I am not painting an anthropological Jesus. Nobody would recognize him if I painted him that way." says McNaughton the artist. Hm. After all he supposedly did for this world, you can't even attempt to paint him like he really was? Oh, to be remembered as you never were...
this "art" is so wrong on so many levels: historically for one as has already been pointed out.
Also what it is saying for me is "all these famous people in American history agree with ME, the artist, in the ideas my work promulgates." How presumptuous is that? Do the descendants and relatives of some of these people know that he has used the images of their loved ones this way? for instance Christa McAuliffe's? Does he have their permission?
And, oh, yes, whole segments of society ( actors, supreme court judges, and those nasty lawyers) are on Satan's side. That makes sense.
I love how the professor is evil but the college student is with jesus. all the college students i known are significantly more liberal than their professors
I read through his explainations and he stated that he grouped several people together who were assassinated (or an attempt was made on their life). It looks to me that Joseph Smith is in the group, standing behind the kneeling Lincoln. Funny though, he never mentioned Joseph Smith when he mentioned other people.