Michelangelo Spoof on American Fundamentalism Gets Censored in England
THE GUARDIAN
By Jonathon Jones
UNITED KINGDOM---This witty poster has reportedly been censored at a British university for being "religiously offensive". Student union officials took down the advert for the Atheist Society at London South Bank University in what has to be one of the daftest and most anti-intellectual acts of censorship since the Catholic church told Galileo to point his telescope the other way round in case he discovered something that offended flat-Earthers. [link]
By Jonathon Jones
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| The image was created by The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a 'pastafarian' ministry founded to satirise American religious fundamentalism. |