Hating Jesus In Vienna For Christmas
Blasphemy, Decadence, And 'Civilizational Erasure' In Filthy Art Exhibit
An extra post today, because a reader tipped me off to something horrendous.
I love Vienna during the Christmas season, which is when the city is at its loveliest. But the Kunstlerhaus museum has chosen this holy season to launch an exhibition of shocking blasphemy.
That photograph above is the lead one on its website promoting the blasphemous exhibit. The exhibition catalog explains:
Here are some other images from the exhibit, all taken from its website:
The catalog explains:
“It is surprising how little progress was made in fostering a substantive theological discussion about the cross, as well as on contemporary artistic practice,” it says. Gosh, I can’t imagine why.
Notice the obscene spread-legged position of the Virgin Mary, and that Jesus is a junkie who has died of an overdose. The catalog says this image “interrogate[s] gender roles and stereotypes.” Sure it does.
These are “latex nubs,” according to the catalog, but the head of Christ, at least, is unmistakably made of simulated maggots. The exhibition catalog says of this image and artist:
“Playful.” “Tender.” “Life-affirming.” The curator who wrote this is out of his mind.
This group of Catholics held a rosary protest outside the museum this week. But not all Austrian Catholics are offended. From the exhibition website (notice the remarks by a bishop and by a Jesuit, who is the rector of Vienna’s Jesuit parish:
By the way, I’m making this post free, so I don’t make any money on it. I am “quoting” the images from the publicly available museum website.
This is more than simply an occasion for Christian outrage. Something much deeper is going on here. I believe that this kind of thing is part of what the new US National Security Strategy described as “the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.” It’s probably not what the author(s) of that document had in mind when they drafted it, but this utter contempt for the Christian roots of European civilization is, to my mind, at the core of the problem.
Anyway, I’m going to Vienna for an Advent visit soon. There are many great museums there, such as the Kunsthistorisches Museum, where you can see the largest collection of Brueghels in the world. I’ll not bother with this Kunstlerhaus filth, though if I pass by the building on my peregrinations, I’ll say the St. Michael prayer.
It is particularly appalling that this appears in Vienna, the ancestral capital of the Habsburgs. It used to be such a Catholic city. On current population trends, the former imperial capital will be majority Muslim by the end of this century. This is what happens when you cease to believe that you have a culture worth defending, particularly from barbarians like the curatorial team that put this vile exhibit together.
I think the fact that these idiotic, bottom-feeding liberals keep thinking art in the vein of "Piss Christ" is compelling is, paradoxically, proof of how powerful Christianity remains in the Western psyche.
After all, if the cross had no power, why would these moral imbeciles need to rebel against it?
The mode of their rebellion is also informative. A true refutation of Christian symbolism would be to create symbolism (statues and art) that contradicts it, but is equally compelling and beautiful (or moreso). But that is not what we're seeing. These people reveal the limits of their vision and ability in the childish and predictable form their rebellion takes. "Piss Christ" is the ceiling for them.
Jesus Christ did not call His priests to be lukewarm. He said plainly:
“Because you are neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth” (Rev. 3:16).
When bishops praise what desecrates the Cross,
they do not show compassion — they show cowardice.
If the sacred is not worth defending,then what exactly is your vocation for?When priests cheer blasphemy,they do not reveal sophistication —
they reveal spiritual collapse.
Vienna once built cathedrals that lifted souls to Heaven.
Now clergy stand smiling as Christ is dragged into the gutter.
It is not the world’s mockery that wounds us most — it is the silence of those ordained to defend the holy.
A shepherd afraid to speak for Christ is not a shepherd.
Christ deserves defenders, not curators of blasphemy.
I hope someone writes the ultimate story on how the Jesuits could have drifted so far from the time St. Ignatius formed men who would rather die than allow Christ to be mocked.
St. Michael the Archangel — defend us in this battle.
Christ our King — reign in spite of Your enemies