RAW DOGMA written by Nkrumah Steward
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| Oh My God, It's Naked Lego Jesus |
Brendan Powell Smith said that he realized after reading
Biblical tales like Sodom and Gomorrah, that they were a lot of things
in the Bible that were "truly bizarre and disturbing."
Amen.
Admittedly not a paradigm smashing newsflash for those of us here at Eight ball but if Brendan came to that conclusion about what they left in the modern Bible, just imagine what he would think
about the things that the Protestants actually took out!
No self respecting connoisseur of art history, let alone healthy scenic
should be without his own autograph copy of the Apocryphal.
Fuck, I can't even imagine how you can even understand the themes
in Renaissance Art if you hadn't at least familiarized yourself with
the Apocryphal. Half of the paintings from that period are Biblical
scenes that don't current exist in our modern version of the Bible.
12 of these 15 works are considered canonical Scripture by the Catholics,
although Jews say that that the scriptures are not inspired by God
because they were written during a time where God had basically quit
fucking with the Jews for a while known as "the period of
silence".
If you don't have the Apocryphal go to your local book store and pick
up a copy. Read up on all the shit that various "men of power"
and influence had removed from the "Protestant" Bible because
a this or that chapter preached against certain "things"
that they wanted to continue doing without God having an "official"
position on like getting divorces
or fucking their siblings.
Trust me it's classic.
Regardless, the version of the Bible that the Protestants left alone
isn't going to leave anyone feeling they got cheated on their portion
of bizarre. Now I am not sure exactly which stories Smith read but
I bet they weren't the toned down Disney interpretations of these
tales that we teach our children in Sunday school. I am willing to
bet he got a hold of the full unabridged versions of these lurid tales
of incest, rape, murder, mutilation, adultery, that you find throughout
many of the biblical stories.
So Smith found himself inspired to highlight the most bizarre and
trifling Jerry Springer type shit he could find in the Bible. You
know the kind of things most Christians will immediately dismiss as
lies because they don't ever bother to read for themselves. Combine
that with his love of Legos, and Brendan suddenly has elaborate reenactments
of naughty biblical sex scenes (among other things) in a format even
the most simple Super Christian can understand.
Trust me it's classic.
He posts the images of the scenes he creates in a photo gallery on
his website.
Evidently because Smith spares no graphic detail in what he calls
people "getting biblical", as expected Jesus Freaks are up in arms calling it blasphemous.
Smith says he doesn't feel blasphemous for illustrating all of the
bizarre details in his Lego biblical reenactments.
And why should he? If it is in the book then what's the problem? I
could see if he was making this stuff up.
I can't stand when people advocate withholding the truth for the sake
of maintaining some image of integrity for an institution. If you
don't like dirt becoming common knowledge of the general public then
the best way to stop it is to not do any dirt. |
