George Floyd was a career criminal who died from a drug overdose while resisting arrest. Jesus Christ is the Son of God who died on the cross for our sins. These two are not the same and you’d think Catholics would recognize this fact. And yet, a Catholic University has unveiled a painting depicting George Floyd as Jesus Christ, which many of you will recognize as blasphemy. Woke blasphemy at that.
Fox News reports:
A painting of George Floyd depicted as Jesus Christ displayed at a Catholic university is “heretical, blasphemous idolatry,” a student told Fox News.
Kelly Latimore’s painting, titled “Mama,” shows a mother mourning her son and evokes Michelangelo’s sculpture “La Pieta,” according to the school. Michelangelo’s work depicts the virgin mother Mary holding Jesus Christ.
Blayne Clegg, a junior at the Catholic University of America, was shocked when he saw the painting hanging outside the law school’s chapel a few weeks ago.
“There’s a fine line between recognizing the innate dignity and righteousness of human beings that are made in the image of God and embracing brazen, progressive politics,” said Clegg.
Students’ reactions to the painting have been “universally negative,” Clegg told Fox News. “I haven’t found anybody who’s been able to give a serious theological justification for this kind of heretical, blasphemous idolatry.”
“Jesus has been depicted as many different races, but Jesus is always depicted as nothing but Jesus, the sinless son of Almighty God. There has never, to my knowledge, been any serious, respected Catholic theologian or icon maker who has depicted Jesus Christ as another human being,” Clegg said.
According to the University, the painting does not depict George Floyd:
The school’s Vice President of Communications responded to Fox’s request for comment saying, “The icon ‘Mama’ is a pieta depicting Mary and her Son, Jesus Christ. The letters in the halo are Ὁ ὬΝ, which is shorthand in Greek for ‘I Am.’ The letters are used in icons only in connection with Jesus Christ, the Son of God.”
The statement continued, “There are those who would like to see George Floyd as the male figure in the icon. That is not how we read it. The image represents to our community a good-faith attempt to include religious imagery on campus that reflects the universality of the Catholic Church.”
But according to the woman who painted it, that’s 100% George Floyd:
When asked whether the painting is of Floyd or Jesus, Latimore has replied, “Yes.” Floyd called out for his mother in a viral video that showed him die under a police officer’s knee.
“Following the violent death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, Latimore created this icon in June of that year,” the description posted with the painting reads.
“The image is evocative of the Pietà – the Mother of Sorrows,” the description continues. “May Mary, the Mirror of Justice, hear the cry of all who have known the sorrow of losing a loved one to violence and injustice. Amen.”
So yeah, it’s George Floyd. Isn’t there a Commandment about not worshiping false idols?
Somehow this gets dumber because the University said it commissioned the painting for Black History Month but they just hung it up a couple of weeks ago. Black History Month is February and a couple of weeks ago was November.
Wokeness isn’t just a cult anymore, it’s a religion. Granted, it’s a pretty shitty religion if their lord and savior is a piece of shit who died of a fentanyl overdose after trying to pass a counterfeit bill at the liquor store, but Scientology is pretty f*cked up too.
