Pope Francis stunned the faithful this weekend when he welcomed some 200 avant-garde artists in the Sistine Chapel, including photographer Andres Serrano, creator of the controversial ‘Piss Christ’ work showing a crucifix submerged in a glass of urine.
Pope Francis is not a saved man, he is not born again, and if he were to die today he would open his eyes in the flames of a burning and fiery place called Hell. He may be the revered leader of Roman Catholicism, but he has nothing to do with the Church that Jesus shed His blood on the cross to create. But even as a ‘paper pope’ what he did in Rome recently at the Sistine Chapel is over the top, way over the top, even for a lost person. If you follow the pope, you’ll follow him all the way to Hell.
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” Ephesians 5:11 (KJB)
Back in the 1980’s, a ‘controversial’ artist named Andres Serrano put a crucifix with an image of Jesus on it, and submerged it in a glass of human piss. He very creatively termed this abomination the ‘Piss Christ’. Wow, how clever. So what better way to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Vatican’s collection of contemporary art by inviting this God-hating heathen to come be a part of it and be warmly welcomed. But ol’ Frankie didn’t stop there. He also invited ‘artists’ who made slasher films and porn videos. And the cherry on top? The pope called these people ‘visionaries’ who help to advance ‘universal human fraternity’, which is to say the agenda of the Antichrist. The gospel that could save all their souls was never mentioned one time, just a bunch of lost people applauding their own destruction.
Pope Francis Welcomes ‘Piss Christ’ Artist in Vatican
FROM BREITBART NEWS: The pontiff received the artists to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vatican’s collection of contemporary art, telling them that like the biblical prophets, “you confront things that at times are uncomfortable; you criticize today’s false myths and new idols, its empty talk, the ploys of consumerism, the schemes of power.”
“You can see things both in depth and from afar, like sentinels who strain their eyes, peering into the horizon and discerning deeper realities,” the pope told the assembled artists. “In doing so, you are called to reject the allure of that artificial, skin-deep beauty so popular today and often complicit with economic mechanisms that generate inequality.”
Serrano’s 1987 photograph generated enormous press, with many decrying the 60-by-40-inch image as blasphemous. The artist, who describes himself as Catholic, claimed to have submerged the crucifix in a glass of his own urine.
When ‘Piss Christ’ was exhibited in 1989, some 50 U.S. senators and 150 representatives complained that the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) had financed the exhibition and the NEA’s budget was eventually cut as a result.
While supporters contended that the controversy over ‘Piss Christ’ was a matter of artistic freedom and freedom of speech, Australian Archbishop (not yet cardinal) George Pell sought an injunction in 1997 from the Supreme Court of Victoria to prevent the National Gallery of Victoria from publicly displaying the work.
Your art “strives to act as a conscience critical of society, unmasking truisms,” Pope Francis told the artists in Friday’s audience. “You want to make people think, to be alert; you want to reveal reality also in its contradictions and in those things that it is more comfortable and convenient to keep hidden.”
Andres Serrano was not the only controversial artist invited to the pope’s Sistine Chapel event. Abel Ferrara, who directed the recent Padre Pio film starring Shia LaBeouf, cut his teeth as a director in 1976 with the pornographic film titled Nine Lives of a Wet Pussy. Ferrara’s second feature-length film was the disturbing 1979 slasher movie The Driller Killer, a dark urban film about an artist (played by Ferrara himself) who goes on a killing spree with a power drill.
“As visionaries, men and women of discernment, critical consciences, I consider you allies in so many things that are dear to me, like the defense of human life, social justice, concern for the poor, care for our common home, universal human fraternity,” Francis told the artists in his address. READ MORE
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