{"id":6018,"date":"2014-03-16T18:43:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T22:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2014-03-16T18:43:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T22:43:36","slug":"as-usual-the-holy-ghost-gets-the-worst-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/as-usual-the-holy-ghost-gets-the-worst-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"As usual, the Holy Ghost gets the worst of it"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"not The tradition of three-self trinitarian art<\/strong> continues, in the cartoons of “nakedpastor<\/a>.” The way your portray a self, is generally by portraying the type of self we’re most familiar with – a human self, or something like one.<\/p>\n

At least the Holy Ghost isn’t a bird… but<\/strong> here he look like a kid in a bad Halloween costume. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

If you’re going to cartoon about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, it’s hard to avoid this sort of three-self representation. After all, no one wants to see<\/strong> this sort of monster, which was actually banned by the Pope at one point.<\/p>\n

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One imagines this three-faced<\/strong> critter to be a single self, as there is one head and body, which is what one human self has. (Never mind that he’s sporting three goatees – that just makes him triple-hip.)<\/p>\n

And the folks who strongly insist that we can neither model nor come up with a really decent analogy for the Trinity… well, it’s mighty hard to draw nothing<\/strong>! I can just see the Christian cartoonists picketing with signs that say: “Negative mysterianism takes food off of Christian cartoonists’ plates!”<\/p>\n

For the record, I’m against (literal) idolatry, but I see nothing whatever wrong with<\/strong> representing Jesus in art, and even God (aka the Father), even in human or humanoid form. (e.g. big faceless figure on throne, as in this great Christian artist<\/a>) There are of course better and worse ways to do this, but to me, it is not images, but their religious misuse that is the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tradition of three-self trinitarian art continues, in the cartoons of “nakedpastor.” The way your portray a self, is generally by portraying the type of self we’re most familiar with – a human self, or something like one. At least the Holy Ghost isn’t a bird… but here he look like a kid in a… Read More »As usual, the Holy Ghost gets the worst of it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-linkage","category-mystery","category-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6027,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions\/6027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}