23-10-2015 16:25 via theguardian.com

The holy-book bomb: is this the most offensive artwork ever?

From the Pope felled by a meteor to Jesus’s edible genitals, who says religious art has lost its power to shock?It’s getting harder to offend people. In an age when congressmen tweet photos of their erections, gunmen take selfies before going on rampages and columnists call migrants cockroaches, the bar for moral outrage has never been higher. Poor artists! They used to be able to nab headlines by dunking a figurine of Jesus in urine, or pasting porn magazine clippings over a paintin
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