Christians Threaten Intersex Artist With Damnation, Not Death in Australia

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SX NEWS
By Serkan Ozturk

AUSTRALIA - An art work featuring an intersex activist, a drag queen, a lesbian academic and renowned indigenous artist Richard Bell in poses reminiscent of Jesus Christ is a frontrunner for this year’s $15,000 Blake Prize for religious art. Luke Roberts, the artist behind the challenging and thought provoking work – known as ‘Three Figures at the Bases of Crucifixions’ – told SX he has received a plethora of threats against him following an article in the Sun-Herald last week. “I’ve received hundreds of threatening emails, mainly from Christians. They’re threatening me with their God, with hellfire and damnation." Roberts explained to SX that despite his work being seen as controversial as some, there has been a long history of new ideas being attempted into silence. “I grew up Catholic and I actually had great respect for Jesus Christ but I don’t have the same view of Jesus as I did when I was growing up Catholic, but I see him as an extraordinary human being with a message for humanity that we still haven’t comprehended," he added. [link]

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