#on a related note you can't meaningfully appropriate usamerican-style evangelical protestantism either | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

agnesandhilda · 6 months ago

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as far as christian-themed art goes I'm of the opinion that you cannot meaningfully appropriate mainline western catholicism (it's a massively powerful branch of a religion that has been spread by imperialism and that actively seeks out converts as a core tenet. how could you appropriate it?) but that it is possible to engage with it shallowly and that that's fair game to make fun of. I will not be taking questions at this time

#bolo speaks #which isn't to say that you need to be personally connected to a specific branch to make good art about it #I think sincerity and research are key there #but I was just listening to lingua ignota (having a normal one) and thinking how funny it was #that she was raised catholic but as an adult artist her whole thing is usamerican evangelical protestant imagery and ideas #most people who crib elements of forms of christianity they weren't raised with for their art #are ex-protestants ribbing on catholicism. I think it's neat to see it the other way around #on a related note you can't meaningfully appropriate usamerican-style evangelical protestantism either #and I don't think we make enough freaky gay art about that #I want tumblrinas to bring the energy they do to st sebastian to whatever tortured ideas of gender are being cooked up in missouri right no #...though maybe I say that because I watch a lot of fundie fridays

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