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NeoGreen

(4,033 posts) Thu Jul 18, 2019, 12:09 PM Jul 2019

NE Woman Demands Spiderman Sculpture Come Down Because She Thinks It's the Devil

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/07/18/ne-woman-demands-spiderman-sculpture-come-down-because-she-thinks-its-the-devil/

NE Woman Demands Spiderman Sculpture Come Down Because She Thinks It’s the Devil
By Hemant Mehta, July 18, 2019

A couple of months ago, artist Ian Anthony Laing created this nifty sculpture of Spiderman’s hands close to the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska. Looks awesome. It’s one of those public works of art everyone like to take pictures in front of.

The project was one of dozens of works of art placed around the city as part of the “Serving Hands Lincoln” program.

But this week, a woman wrote a nasty letter to the mayor demanding the sculpture be taken down because it reminds her of… not Spiderman.

“It is a sculpture of two hands open, painted Red & Black, and formed into Devil Horns,” she wrote in an email Friday, calling the art anti-Christian, demonic, and completely inappropriate for showcase near a family attraction.

She demanded the city move the 6-foot Spiderman sculpture because it’s ugly, perverse and a “hate crime against the church.”

C’mon now. Spiderman helps people. If the lady’s concern is getting rid of things that aren’t family friendly and that promote perversion, then the local churches need to go well before the sculpture does.

But, but, she really, really BELIEVES it true, she has faith it is true, so it must be TRUE.
It's a different way of seeing. You just can't SEE it.

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NE Woman Demands Spiderman Sculpture Come Down Because She Thinks It's the Devil (Original Post) NeoGreen Jul 2019 OP

Sure, everyone in this country has a constitutional right to not be offended..........LOL Thomas Hurt Jul 2019 #1

Only an incompetent idiot would believe anything like this...and I'm going to listen to people ... SWBTATTReg Jul 2019 #2

Simple solution. Nobody makes her go to the zoo so she doesn't have to see it. Botany Jul 2019 #3

Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as stupid is." 3Hotdogs Jul 2019 #4

I know of another similar situation in a town with a mural. littlemissmartypants Jul 2019 #5

She's really gonna be upset Rob H. Jul 2019 #6

I don't like that you can see his fingernails through what are supposed to be gloves... TlalocW Jul 2019 #7

That's an Amazing piece of interpretive fine art! Anon-C Jul 2019 #8

So, she believes that the Devil is a comic book character? MineralMan Jul 2019 #9

The devil, Satan, Mephisto edhopper Jul 2019 #11

Ah. Igel Jul 2019 #10

Thomas Hurt

(13,929 posts)

1. Sure, everyone in this country has a constitutional right to not be offended..........LOL

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2019, 12:12 PM

Jul 2019

I must have the freedom to limit or take the freedom of my lessers....don't you understand that?

snark

SWBTATTReg

(24,337 posts)

2. Only an incompetent idiot would believe anything like this...and I'm going to listen to people ...

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2019, 12:13 PM

Jul 2019

like this in dictating whom/what I should believe in? Yeah, right (sarcasm dripping here)...

Botany

(72,666 posts)

3. Simple solution. Nobody makes her go to the zoo so she doesn't have to see it.

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2019, 12:15 PM

Jul 2019

BTW I might be wrong but I think Spiderman is make believe just like her
"Church Stuff."

3Hotdogs

(13,571 posts)

4. Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as stupid is."

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2019, 12:40 PM

Jul 2019

littlemissmartypants

(25,906 posts)

5. I know of another similar situation in a town with a mural.

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2019, 12:50 PM

Jul 2019

It is a very colorful allegory created from stories told by the residents of the town and painted, with direction and participation of the artist, by town members, including many children. A woman wrote a letter to the mayor to saying it "didn’t represent the town" and it should be taken down or painted over because it "looks like something painted by devil worshippers" and will "bring unwanted types" to town. She followed up her letter with a speech in puplic forum to the town board. She made no excuses for the fact that her "Baptist upbringing" is what informed her opinion. I don't know the outcome of the dispute.

Rob H.

(5,591 posts)

6. She's really gonna be upset

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2019, 01:14 PM

Jul 2019

if she ever sees two people signing “I love you” in American Sign Language. “Devil worshippers! Run!”

TlalocW

(15,632 posts)

7. I don't like that you can see his fingernails through what are supposed to be gloves...

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2019, 01:20 PM

Jul 2019

SATAN!!! REMOVE IT NOW!!!

TlalocW

Anon-C

(3,440 posts)

8. That's an Amazing piece of interpretive fine art!

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Thu Jul 18, 2019, 01:36 PM

Jul 2019

Anti-Christian? Demonic?

Loll! I understand that things may have been a little "dark" from '84 - '88..

Oh well, not really a True Believer, is she. Fine. But demonic?

I think ANGELIC is a better descriptor!