{"id":11541,"date":"2011-01-24T17:02:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T22:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11541"},"modified":"2011-01-24T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T22:02:06","slug":"a-toronto-artist-compares-the-pope-to-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-toronto-artist-compares-the-pope-to-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"A Toronto artist compares the Pope to Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Godwin\u2019s law states that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”\"\"<\/em><\/p>\n

This observation, while not infallibly accurate, has its roots in the tendency for discussion group addicts to increasingly invoke ludicrous comparisons as they gradually exhaust their \u2013 usually very limited \u2013 capacity for rational thought.<\/p>\n

A Toronto artist, Peter Alexander Por, has concocted an artistic expression of Godwin\u2019s law in which he has dispensed with trifling intermediate appeals to rationality and leapt straight to the Hitler comparison \u2013 with, of course, the Pope and George Bush. To allay any lingering suspicion that there may, notwithstanding all evidence to the contrary, be a spark of originality concealed somewhere in his desiccated imagination, Por has thrown in a depiction of a crucified Obama, victim of special and distorted interests.<\/em><\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

TORONTO, Ontario, January 24, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) \u2013 A Toronto art gallery is scheduled to exhibit an array of inflammatory works that include a picture of a seated Pope Benedict XVI riddled with bullet holes, alongside portraits of other \u201cevildoers\u201d such as President George Bush and Hitler.<\/p>\n

The exhibit, entitled \u201cPersona Non Grata \u2013 The Veil of History,\u201d by Toronto-based artist Peter Alexander Por, is due to open at the Bezpala Brown Gallery on February 5, 2011.<\/p>\n

Por\u2019s exhibit, 30 canvases and four sculptures, also includes depictions of Pope Innocent III, Stalin, Mussolini, Kim II Sung, Pol Pot, and others.<\/p>\n

In a press release the gallery said that the \u201cbullet-ridden\u201d depiction of the pope is \u201ca less than subtle expression of the hurt and anger directed at a pontiff and an institution that has abandoned its flock, choosing to focus on dogma while its subjects suffer and, in many instances, die from its archaic policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the exhibition also includes a depiction of the \u201ccrucifixion of Obama,\u201d casting the current U.S. president as \u201ca victim, crucified in the wake of special and distorted interests,\u201d according to the gallery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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