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(Date Posted:12/16/2007 14:29:37)
American Fundamentalists(Christ's Entry into Washington in 2008) by Joel Pelletier, 2004, acylic on canvas, 8' 4" x 14' 1.5" (mouse over image to compare with 1888 Ensor original; click to enlarge) 
AMERICAN FUNDAMENTALISTS is included in a 4-city European Art Exhibit "FUNDAMENTAL"
The Manchester, UK Arts collective Northern Arts Tactical Offensive has invited me to include my AMERICAN FUNDAMENTALIST painting in a one year, four city European art exhibit entitled Fundamental. The exhibit will include works on Fundamentalism throughout the world by artists from many countries. The opening night for the tour will take place on Saturday, 1 September 2007, 7pm at the Zion Arts Centre, Manchester, UK. I will be there to speak about the painting and fundamentalism in the United States (go to events for more). <!---font size="-->
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In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince people that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy person living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, woman(man) is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
-- George H Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God | 
