The Issue: The new art exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum that depicts ants crawling over Jesus.
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The depiction of Christ with ants crawling all over him has nothing to do with art, nor is it a marketing technique to shock people into attending the exhibit (“A Boring Blasphemy,” James Panero, Post-Opinion, Nov. 18).
It is simply an attack on the Church.
This has been going on forever — whether it’s the current display or one of the Virgin Mary covered in elephant dung.
R. MacKenzie
Hoboken, NJ
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Kudos to James Panero for his insightful column, which only goes to show that anti-Catholicism unfortunately is alive and well.
The Brooklyn Museum, under one of the show’s curators, Jonathan Katz, is seeking public funds for the upcoming Christmas season to spew its venom against the Catholic Church.
This tentative Christmas agenda at the museum depicts “insects crawling over a Jesus figurine.”
Katz described the Catholic League as “parasites” for objecting to this denigration, especially when it is underwritten by public funds.
Such a secular liberal as Katz might be more accurately described as a radical for his blatant intolerance in supporting the insensitive use of public funds to malign any major religious faith.
Thomas Dennelly
Sayville
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Here we go again. The Brooklyn Museum has begun yet another attack on Christians, called “Fire in My Belly.”
Some supporters may call this art or freedom of expression, but I bet the museum wouldn’t depict something controversial about another religion.
T. DeJulio
New Rochelle