{"id":13275,"date":"2012-10-29T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=13275"},"modified":"2012-10-29T18:52:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:52:42","slug":"bad-art-and-horus-manure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/10\/bad-art-and-horus-manure\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Art and Horus Manure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Akin <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/jimmyakin\/HPRf\/~3\/FscXvTKB_T8\/tired-of-bad-church-art-do-something-about-it.html\" target=\"_blank\">on Bad Church art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some years ago I went to a travelling exhibit of the Vatican art treasures.<\/p>\n<p>One thing leapt out at my really clearly: In contrast to all the art treasures from previous centuries, the \u201cart treasures\u201d from the mid-2oth century onward were terrible.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime I want to post a picture of the \u201cMillennium vestments\u201d they designed for John Paul II. They look like some kind of alien dignitary costume from Star Trek Voyager.<\/p>\n<p>And bad Catholic art is by no means confined to the travelling art treasures exhibit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But his post is not just a showcase of bad Catholic art, but also about Catholic art education and the good work the Chesterton Academy is doing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/jimmyakin\/HPRf\/~3\/MxfnaDw54N4\/is-jesus-a-knockoff-of-the-egyptian-god-horus.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy also links<\/a> to an article published in the Nov-Dec 2012 issue of Catholic Answers Magazine titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonsorensen.net\/2012\/10\/25\/horus-manure-debunking-the-jesushorus-connection\/\" target=\"_blank\">Horus Manure: Debunking the Jesus\/Horus Connection<\/a> by Jon Sorensen.  The author really deserves some kind of award for that pun.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Akin on Bad Church art. Some years ago I went to a travelling exhibit of the Vatican art treasures. One thing leapt out at my really clearly: In contrast&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13276,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13275\/revisions\/13276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}