@blatham,
blatham wrote:
Krampus and a deep dive into the christian mind. Take a look at these
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These two illustrations are very typical of how Krampus or Satan were portrayed in Victorian and earlier European art (though the first obviously contemporary). Two things to notice.
1) he/it is a Jew. Look at the face and the nose.
2) he/it is portrayed as an animal, that is, a highly sexualized animal
The first needs no further explanation. We get what that's about. The second is an instance of the classic differentiation between animal lust and christian agape/spirtuality. That's a binary split/opposition that remains a deep part of the christian view of the world.
And an interesting contemporary aspect to this is how evangelicals and the more rigid catholics in the US so easily framed Bill Clinton is a lusting animal but commonly refuse to perceive Trump the thrice married to ever younger women, womanizer and pussy grabber in the same manner.
It is difficult to even begin to note Blatham's errors, lack of historical accuracy, unfounded insinuations and tortured false analogies here.
The illustrations are not "typical pf Victorian and European Art". Indeed at least one appears to be a contemporary creation. This is simple uninformed ignorance. What any relic of European Victorian culture (however inaccurately portrayed) may have to do with contemporary U.S. politics is unstated. This appears to be mere lunatic fantasy.
Blatham appears to believe he has achieved a significant insight in seeing an illustration of the Christian contrast between lust and selfishness and charity and spirituality, or his truly offensive implication that there is something (which he hasn't taken the trouble to specify) wrong with that . (Despite that he does manage to force yet another pretentious word , "agape" , into his text. This is but a rather tortuned contrivance for the political point that follows- probabaly the central theme of this page long piece of ****.
It appears that Christians in America who may have faulted Bill Clinton for his misuses of office and abuse of youthful inexperienced government employees by getting blowjobs from an intern in the White House, and then perjuring himself in a sworn deposition about it, and his previous history of alleged rapes of other women - all accompanyied by organized attacks on his accusers, have somehow failed to see the same behavior in Trump's several marriages to beautiful women and the attractive children they have produced, and his occasional coarse talk.
Then, of course there is the enfolding suggestion of anti semitism and sexuality, all,in some unstated way, connected to his ill-informed and largely inaccurate depicton of European Victorianisn - an historical phenomenon which has no evident connection to the current political situation in the United States.
Apart from a possible insight to some of the inaccurate and illogical mental procersses which might plague Blatham, this crap has no relevance to the issues on this thread or, for that matter anything in the world except perhaps the strange thoughts of an obsessive person in Western Canada.
