Comment on Conservative Christian Alternatives to "Burning Man"?

Arcane_Trixster@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• masterofballs@exploding-heads.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Conservativism and religion are antithetical to art and free expression.

  Oh my God so true, just look at this hidious Christian art.

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  Or this one,

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  Or this,

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  • squashkin@exploding-heads.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think you certainly make the point that Christians have a long history of artistic expression; the only limit has been sin, Christians weren’t supposed to make sinful art pieces

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• squashkin@exploding-heads.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well I think MOB who responded to you started to get at the point, but there’s definitely a history of Christian artistry… I would bring up Salvador Dali as a modern example who comes to mind (he converted to Catholicism)

  The only limit on “free” expression was Christians ought not sin in creating art

  I do think you have a point to make, that sometimes conservatism and art haven’t mixed, but this is probably more of specific kinds of “conservatives” (who are often supportive at least of religious artwork oftentimes).

  Regarding “modern conservative Christian” culture, it really has attracted a lot of the (classical) liberals today so there is a lot of a culture of freedom with artists, perhaps more so than with the political left. I mean for example on the fediverse here, it was other instances defederating with our instance here to prevent “free expression”, not the other way around.

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