I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

It's a tough call . . .

My reaction when I see really, really bad art is to LMBO.

As a culturally Christian atheist about to marry a culturally Jewish atheist (with many Muslim friends between us), my reaction to political Christianism is to be very offended.

In this case, though, the LMBO reaction wins.

Linda

Blue - I'm here - been busy at work, so really just reading when I can - you girls are too fast for me sometimes.

I LOVE impressionism, cubism, surrealism and abstact expressionism. What I dislike and think is bunkum is conceptual art - you know, the type where they put a toilet bowl in the middle of the Guggenheim or the Pompidou center in Paris and tell you it's worth a fortune. Rubbish.

I favored impressionists and some modern artists - Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Haring. I don't like portraits or paintings of people at all. Go figure.

Sandy and Blue, I completely agree. Christian here and offended!

Blue, she's thinking "I need chocolate," IMHO of course! 

Lovely fantasy with token diversity.

I'm loving the art interlude.  I have to admit that after the Mods said to stop talking politics I then thought it would be a good time to look at the other thread to try to find the commonalities between us.  Didn't work.  I enjoy being here with people who like to talk politics but also have other interests that I either share or can learn from.  So if I have to spend my time here this holiday season not talking politics well then I can't think of a better group of women to not talk politics with.

Actually, yorkiemom, Muslims wouldn't visualize Mohammed.  He's the prophet/messenger, not the deity.  God for Muslims and Jews is unrepresentable.  A picture like that would be profoundly alien to both Islam and Judaism. 

L

Edited to take out something written in anger. And to make clear that I totally agree with yorkiemom about the importance of being ecumenical - this season more than ever!  (I love being in Brooklyn and looking at the Christmas displays in stores while listening to the call to prayer from a storefront mosque and passing Orthodox Jews hurrying home from the subway.  *That's* what "one nation" is about to me.)

Yorkie and Lewing, that is why he says it, just like he prefers "Happy holidays," because people celebrate MORE THAN ONE HOLIDAY AT THIS TIME OF YEAR! There are OTHER BELIEF SYSTEMS AT WORK HERE! Yep, shouting for emphasis.



Not that anyone who needs to understand that will get it.



But you all here do. It's why I am happy here.



L

Totally agree HL. This country was founded on tolerance for religious FREEDOM, not intolerance. That's good enough for me. This holy season is so important just because we are a nation that reveres diversity and love for all mankind, regardless of ethnicity or religion.

Yeah, it's like what's really on that lion's mind? 

Jackie: I'd like the picture better if i knew that the fawn wasn't eaten two minutes after it was snapped. 

Everyone: agree that it's the season for Holidays.  i've always loved Christmas, even though I don't believe in the divinity of Jesus, and I like Hannukah.  My husband is from a Catholic background, non-practicing, and as everyone know, I hail from the Jewish part of town, so we celebrate both holidays in an ecumenical sort of way. It's a nice time of year - except for the people who are determined to force their own personal view of religion down my throat. 

My husband is Jewish and his family always had a Christmas tree with presents under it for him. They also, of course, celebrated Hanukah. DH told me his parents did the Christmas tree thing because they just wanted him to have as much fun as his Christian friends! They were great parents, needless to say.