NE Woman Demands Spiderman Sculpture Come Down Because She Thinks It's the Devil

[NeoGreen]

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/07/18/ne-woman-demands-spiderman-sculpture-come-down-because-she-thinks-its-the-devil/

NE Woman Demands Spiderman Sculpture Come Down Because She Thinks It’s the Devil
By Hemant Mehta, July 18, 2019

A couple of months ago, artist Ian Anthony Laing created this nifty sculpture of Spiderman’s hands close to the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska. Looks awesome. It’s one of those public works of art everyone like to take pictures in front of.

The project was one of dozens of works of art placed around the city as part of the “Serving Hands Lincoln” program.

But this week, a woman wrote a nasty letter to the mayor demanding the sculpture be taken down because it reminds her of… not Spiderman.

“It is a sculpture of two hands open, painted Red & Black, and formed into Devil Horns,” she wrote in an email Friday, calling the art anti-Christian, demonic, and completely inappropriate for showcase near a family attraction.

She demanded the city move the 6-foot Spiderman sculpture because it’s ugly, perverse and a “hate crime against the church.”

C’mon now. Spiderman helps people. If the lady’s concern is getting rid of things that aren’t family friendly and that promote perversion, then the local churches need to go well before the sculpture does.

But, but, she really, really BELIEVES it true, she has faith it is true, so it must be TRUE.
It's a different way of seeing. You just can't SEE it.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Sure, everyone in this country has a constitutional right to not be offended..........LOL

I must have the freedom to limit or take the freedom of my lessers....don't you understand that?

snark

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Only an incompetent idiot would believe anything like this...and I'm going to listen to people ...

like this in dictating whom/what I should believe in? Yeah, right (sarcasm dripping here)...

[Botany]

3. Simple solution. Nobody makes her go to the zoo so she doesn't have to see it.

BTW I might be wrong but I think Spiderman is make believe just like her
"Church Stuff."

[3Hotdogs]

4. Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as stupid is."

[littlemissmartypants]

5. I know of another similar situation in a town with a mural.

It is a very colorful allegory created from stories told by the residents of the town and painted, with direction and participation of the artist, by town members, including many children. A woman wrote a letter to the mayor to saying it "didn’t represent the town" and it should be taken down or painted over because it "looks like something painted by devil worshippers" and will "bring unwanted types" to town. She followed up her letter with a speech in puplic forum to the town board. She made no excuses for the fact that her "Baptist upbringing" is what informed her opinion. I don't know the outcome of the dispute.

[Rob H.]

6. She's really gonna be upset

if she ever sees two people signing “I love you” in American Sign Language. “Devil worshippers! Run!”

[TlalocW]

7. I don't like that you can see his fingernails through what are supposed to be gloves...

SATAN!!! REMOVE IT NOW!!!

TlalocW

[Anon-C]

8. That's an Amazing piece of interpretive fine art!

Anti-Christian? Demonic?

Loll! I understand that things may have been a little "dark" from '84 - '88..




Oh well, not really a True Believer, is she. Fine. But demonic?

I think ANGELIC is a better descriptor!

[MineralMan]

9. So, she believes that the Devil is a comic book character?

OK, fine. A fictional demon, then.

We must do as she asks because reasons...

[edhopper]

11. The devil, Satan, Mephisto

all have appeared many times in comics.




his son too,

[Igel]

10. Ah.

Another hand gesture with a nefarious secret meaning that everybody knows.

Except not really used with that meaning.

Hook'em horns!