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"Australian Jesus".(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: Last April I made my first visit to the National Museum in Canberra. As I entered the building, one of the staff handed me an introductory brochure to the museum. I thanked her, unfolded the glossy pamphlet and was immediately and quite deeply upset by an image in the middle of the design. Surrounded by happy snaps of smiling children and museum visitors is a photograph of a purported religious sculpture. It represents a cartoon-like male bead with long blonde hair, three blue eyes--one in the centre of the forehead--a halo on top, and surrounded by images of a beer can, a football, a thong, a hot-dog, a suburban house and other common motifs. Beneath this head is the large inscription, "Australian Jesus".
Most disturbed at this example of undisguised religious vilification, I subsequently wrote to Ms Dawn Casey, the museum's director, asking that the brochure be withdrawn from circulation. That's all I requested. Referring to the guidelines on religious sensitivity which are put out by the Australian museums' association, I explained to her that in deliberately mocking Christ, this image will cause distress to many people, a great number of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, "Australian Jesus".(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)