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WilliamJenningsBryan 12-20-2020 08:00 AM

The Vatican's Vile Nativity Display
 
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We're preoccupied with our own problems here in this country with the Godless Democrats one step away from turning our Godly country into a communist dictatorship and a "president" that is one step away from having his commission papers signed to put him into an assisted living facility. It's time for another edition of pope watch.

Is that Marxist postmodernist deconstructionism? It's a little late to be talking about art history - I can almost guarantee that the infinite peace and mercy of the Baby Jesus (it's His Birthday after all) has been taxed beyond any tolerance and is about to embarkk on a rage of vengeance of full blown destruction. Maybe that's why the CDC is telling us to stay inside over Christmas.

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Vatican's 'shocking' Nativity display irks U.S. Catholics

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times - Thursday, December 17, 2020

American Catholics are critiquing the creche the Vatican has put on display in St. Peter’s Square, with one commentator comparing the globular ceramics diorama to the cantina scene from “Star Wars.”

“A shocking portrayal,” Duncan Stroik, a professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, said in email to The Washington Times. “Not particularly evocative of the Incarnation, which much of the world celebrates this month.”

The Nativity unveiled by the Vatican last week evokes an out-of-this-world vibe, with an oval-headed Joseph, a spaceman as one of the Wise Men, an extraterrestrial Archangel Gabriel and bulky farm animals. It has mystified art critics, laypersons and some clergy alike.

“It is truly ugly. How very sad,” Deacon Keith Fournier of the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, tweeted. “The Catholic Church has such beautiful art. This increasingly ugly world is hungering for beauty. Why would this be chosen?”

A host on Relevant Radio, a Catholic network, called the display “unusually modernistic.” Art historian Elizabeth Lev in America Magazine, a Jesuit publication, noted the “universal outpouring of mockery.” And The New York Post said “if it were a Broadway play, it probably would have closed on opening night.”

Seemingly on the defensive, an article posted this week to the Vatican’s official news website says the 2020 “Christmas crib” is said to hold “cultural heritage not immediately visible to the eye.” The 52-piece ceramic display was made in the style that is typical of Castelli, Italy, which is known internationally for its pottery, the article states. Students and teachers assembled the set over 10 years, from 1965 to 1975.

Regarding the “spaceman,” the Vatican says Pope Francis wrote as recently as a year ago that it is “customary” to add symbolic figures to a Nativity scene.

Not all are convinced.

Radio host Lino Rulli, on his “The Catholic Guy Show” on SiriusXM, jokingly compared the display to Darth Vader, adding that the Nativity looks like it had been cast with characters from the cantina scene in “Star Wars.”

He told The Times that the ensuing kerfuffle over the Nativity scene reveals a “snapshot” of a contemporary Roman Catholic Church that, thanks to social media, is hearing increasingly from its people in the pews.

“It’s not the end of the world,” Mr. Rulli said. “But I think it’s a reflection of more Catholics saying, ‘Hey, it’s my church, too, and I also get to say when I’m disapproving and we are going in a bad direction.’”

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ks-us-catholi/

Ezekiel Bathfire 12-20-2020 10:41 AM

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“It is truly ugly. How very sad,” Deacon Keith Fournier of the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
It is not often I find myself partly agreeing with a Catlick and I would have preferred it if he had said, “This is no more than a blatant blasphemy and has exposed the pope’s cynical disregard for his minions' intelligence and taste."


The pope’s logic seems to be, “Hey, I’m pope and can do what I want and you have to suck it up.”

The scene seems to be made of objects from the municipal garbage dump.

WWJDnow 12-20-2020 11:16 AM

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There were no turkeys in Bethlehem in the year zero. And there were no black people, either. But I suppose it's only natural for a false church like catholicism to have a false nativity display.

MitzaLizalor 12-20-2020 11:48 AM

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It was a bit difficult to make out from the picture. This was about the best I could find, showing several different angles of view.


Romeo Rovagnati 12-21-2020 10:54 AM

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That's quite a surprise for me. I didn't heard people comparing Catholicisim to the Empire of Star Wars since the times when Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was mistaken for Darth Vader's master.


https://i.postimg.cc/SR7Xymyj/papa-r...arth-vader.jpg

Unfalsifiable 12-21-2020 11:10 AM

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Catholics get very confused when they are angry - look at how this Catholic mother fails to deal with some basic teenage atheism - however, I guess it's much harder to convince children of a false religion.




Isabella White 12-22-2020 12:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Unfalsifiable (Post 1278309)
Catholics get very confused when they are angry - look at how this Catholic mother fails to deal with some basic teenage atheism - however, I guess it's much harder to convince children of a false religion.


Oh, the poor husband, having to put up with that screech-owl wife that he has. Judging by the potty language she is using, going back to church would not be a bad idea, except that she's determined to re-join the Cathyolick "church", which will only make matters much worse! Well, she can go back if she thinks it will make a difference, but since she chooses to ignore that her choice will land her in :hell-2:, and instead of hollering at her son, she might blame herself for insisting on returning to false teachings! Well, off she can go, kissing statues, curtsying to them -- all she wants -- but there is no denying that she will have her day of shame and regret when she stands before the dear :lord-fancy: :jesus-fancy: on Judgment Day, and pays the price for such stubborn rebellion!

Matthew 25:30 "And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

http://jesus-is-savior.com/False%20R...ationtract.jpg

Dennis Lukes 12-22-2020 01:49 AM

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Just the thought of a Catholic nativity scene is pissing me off! "Out of the way," the cardinals shriek as they charge into the manger and toss the baby Jesus onto the ground. They begin pawing the hems of Mary's robe and chanting Satanic hymns in their diabolical Latin."Pray for us, o holy Goddess! Blessed is the Queen of Heaven!"
I think I'm going to be sick.

MitzaLizalor 12-22-2020 09:05 AM

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Before you do that, do you have any idea who or what this is supposed to be? At least we know what it's drinking. Probably what that possessed catholic was on and/or the alien nativity guy.

Romeo Rovagnati 10-03-2021 09:18 PM

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Before you do that, do you have any idea who or what this is supposed to be? At least we know what it's drinking. Probably what that possessed catholic was on and/or the alien nativity guy.

Wait, where did i have seen that character before? :fear2: Oh wait, i know it: it is a karate fighter from an 80s movie called Big Trouble in Little China.


[WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT BELOW]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz0tjiQXvQc


I've watched that movie years ago and it was pretty much a good representation of Chinese culture: heaten superstitions and martial-art violence, both things that God hates. :thumbdown:

MitzaLizalor 10-06-2021 11:42 AM

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Just to recap:

First there was a post concerning an atrocious "Nativity" display. And is that really a two-headed sheep concealed in there?

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Originally Posted by WilliamJenningsBryan (Post 1278256)

Admixed with all the other horrors it was easy to miss at first. So I checked out the - thing - and sure enough it was what it was supposed to be. Well, obviously it wasn't but that's what they'd got up for the occasion. I highlighted a couple of the malignancies seeming to identify at least one as a souse, definitely on the stuff, as follows.

Quite horrific. Whoever dreamed this up must have been "on" more than just the stuff. But at least you can see the bottle involved, actually a good representation.

So I was intrigued that you'd identified a Chinese idolator as the likely model? Rome is built on malignancy and idols, we know this well enough, but your rather pertinent suggestion got me to thinking. Which actor in your HQ's seasonal blasphemy is the well-inflated sauce-guzzling manikin supposed to be? There were no more East Asian heretics present in Bethlehem that space cadets or double-headed sheep. If you have finally grasped the error of Romish dogma, and would like to accept Christianity, the Pastors are always available.

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https://www.landoverbaptist.net/atta...8&d=1607216829 Originally Posted by Romeo Rovagnati https://www.landoverbaptist.net/pict...&pictureid=768
https://www.landoverbaptist.net/atta...8&d=1607216829 [WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT BELOW]
https://www.landoverbaptist.net/atta...8&d=1607216829 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz0tjiQXvQc


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