{"id":1849,"date":"2009-07-26T10:19:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T17:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/07\/defaced-in-gods-image\/"},"modified":"2009-07-26T09:23:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T16:23:39","slug":"defaced-in-gods-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/26\/defaced-in-gods-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Defaced In God’s Image"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the Times Online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Gallery\u2019s invitation to deface the Bible brings obscene response<\/h1>\n

by Mike Wade<\/p>\n

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A publicly funded exhibition is encouraging people to deface the Bible in the name of art \u2014 and visitors have responded with abuse and obscenity.<\/p>\n

\"James<\/p>\n

The show includes a video of a woman ripping pages from the Bible and stuffing them into her bra, knickers and mouth.<\/p>\n

The open Bible is a central part of\u00a0Made in God\u2019s Image,<\/em>\u00a0an exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (Goma) in Glasgow. By the book is a container of pens and a notice saying: \u201cIf you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibit,\u00a0Untitled 2009<\/em>, was proposed by the Metropolitan Community Church, which said that the idea was to reclaim the Bible as a sacred text. But to the horror of many Christians, including the community church, visitors have daubed its pages with comments such as \u201cThis is all sexist pish, so disregard it all.\u201d A contributor wrote on the first page of Genesis: \u201cI am Bi, Female & Proud. I want no god who is disappointed in this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>[ click to continue reading at Times Online<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the Times Online Gallery\u2019s invitation to deface the Bible brings obscene response by Mike Wade A publicly funded exhibition is encouraging people to deface the Bible in the name of art \u2014 and visitors have responded with abuse and obscenity. The show includes a video of a woman ripping pages from the Bible and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}