General Chat

In Glasgow at an art gallery, protests took place as people were allowed to write on the Bible, not all bad comments but some swearing and rude comments occurred.
What do you feel, should that have been allowed ? What do Christians and other faiths feel if it had been their holy works.

I wondered, how an open bible with an invitation to add comments could be construed as "art" anyway:

In my opinion it was invitation to "deface" something - I suppose they could have put a wall up and provided spray paint but hey, that wouldnt have caused so much publicity!

Appalling behaviour, but a sign of the times I think.

Jac xxx

'Bugger it' is my fav Marilyn...interesting question..i'm pretty certain it wasn't the 20th century peeps who invented swear words

Wrong fred Hobbity? lol lol lol

It's one of my favourite words also! ))))

i write in my bible, but thats ok, don't see the need to write in it with swear words, thats not art, can you imagine if that was done to the koran, there would be an uproar, shame on us really

I'm an atheist and up front with it but I do have respect for others beliefs...and no I wouldn't have added to it. It would have seemed wrong to deface it. Of course i couldn't have wrote anything
respectful either.

I won't write in ANY books :)

It annoys me beyond belief when I pick up a library book with comments in pen (or pencil in fact) or when someone has marked where they have read to with initial or similar! .I wouldn't write in books at college either, even my own for the purpose of 'notes'.

Sacrilege lol.

Rose x

Doryth - the Bible is the book for Christians ...

Was it all done for a bit of publicity I wonder - or was it an artist pushing the boundaries again?

Jill

p.s. I do write in books sometimes but only if they are mine - I cannot bear finding notes in library books! I wouldn't dare do that.

Yes it is Rosie.
Something my mam drilled into us as kids...look after yer books.
Something my children have always been taught..and we have books that are years old and are in perfect condition.

I agree with you, Rose. It irritates me to pick a textbook out of the library to find someone has underlined, or even worse highlighted, sections of it, grrrr

"i'm pretty certain it wasn't the 20th century peeps who invented swear words"

You're right HB, in 'On Mrs Willis' by the Earl of Rochester there is a certain four letter word beginning with 'C' in it. He lived in the 17th century.

Oh my Cat...rushes off to wash my ears out lol

lol HB

It isn't the only naughty word in that or other poems of his.

I believe in God, but I don't see why a copy of the Bible should be treated differently to any other book to be honest, they should all be treated with care and not defaced.

I do question how writing in a book is "art" though:)

A couple of four letter words - which I shall leave to your imaginations - are quite probably older than Christianity. That said, I don't see the artistic merit of defacing the Bible with them.

I think I had better read it then Cat...just for observational purposes of course....pmsl

Me neither LWH...we have to look at a mess and say...'oh yes I can see where the artist is comming from with this'
Take Tracy Ermins work of the unmade bed...what the hell was that all about.
Give me the old masters anytime.
But were the old masters works of art that we know and love today laughed at then.

Disgusted to say the least!!
some of these people who call themselves artist are nothing more than Charlatans!and In my opinion the people that say they understand this type of "Art" only say so because they want to be seen as Modern and in the know,Infact its just pure S***E:-))

The Impressionists were considered pretty strange in their day. Now they are copied on numerous birthday cards and calenders.

People like Picaso who did paint some rather strange paintings could also paint portrait,landscape e.t.c!
Tracey what sit! wouldnt know where to start!
thats the difference between art and Crap!in my opinion

Apparently your works of art are crap until you die then they become the most sort after. But you must have been half starved and lived in Paris and mixed with the likes of Satre and Simone de beauvoir to have some sort of credence. Bless them