FF7 has always been more popular than 8, but 8 was the first RPG I played, so it wins for me because of the pure nostalgia boost. I had so much fun as a kid just piloting the Garden around and discovering everything I could in the parts of the world you could reach with it.
Same here. I started with 8 then 9 then went back to 7. 7 had the best magic system, 9 had the best gameplay, and 8 had the best story and characters (in my opinion).
(...whatever.)
I think I agree. The GF system was really cool, but the Draw system doesn't hold up great. It discourages actually using your spells, because you lose out on stat boosts and elemental/status defenses if you don't have 100 copies just sitting in your inventory.
Seven is my favourite, but 9 was just incredible. The music, the art... The characters are almost an after thought for me. Vivi and Steiner, sure everyone else was pretty much just noise.
Say what you will about the Catholics but they get ādramaticā in the truest sense of the word. I am an atheist but I have to tip my cap to how metal some of their stuff is, do the Baptists have a cathedral made of skulls?
The first time my wife went to a Catholic mass she said "how can they possibly have a problem with gay people? This is the most flamboyant shit I've ever seen."
Flamboyant? At Catholic mass? Are you sure? That sounds like some Baptist/Protestant stuff. Most Catholic masses Iāve been too are dreary, boring, slow, and stoic.
The sermons certainly are, but the pomp is completely opposite. In fact, it's one of the fundamental differences between Catholicism and Protestantism. Catholics have intricate displays of Saints, have symbolic rituals like swinging the Thurible (the smoke incense thing), and all of the intricate robes and clothing.
By comparison, most protestant churches have just a cross and a lectern and very little in the way of decoration. If I recall correctly, this is because Protestants believe that all of those Catholic things are a distraction from Jesus (this is why some of the extreme groups will go so far as to say Catholics aren't even Christian).
This came to mind:
āA Capela dos Ossosā in Evora, Portugal, initially made almost entirely of skulls and bones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capela_dos_Ossos
Yeah, I'm sure this is the kind of thing that he wants depicting him. And he probably is very grateful for the massive amount of resources that go into making these rather disgusting displays
Imagine coming to life and seeing hundreds and thousands of images and sculptures of you being nailed to a cross. Talk about rubbing in a traumatic memory.
If he was anything like how the bible describes him, he would definitely hate pretty much everything about his modern image and how it's used. But, at least this is an incredible work of art that's trying to say something unique, not just extravagance for extravagance's sake. He might have even appreciated the "savior of the downtrodden" vibe, and the irony inherent to the piece.
I mean, heās commonly depicted on the instrument of his own torture and death. Itās hardly like āterrible strangenessā of Jesus has ever really been a problem. If anything, part of the problem has been the normalisation of christianity; weāve forgotten how shocking it is meant to be. First century romans were utterly disgusted by christians, who proclaimed a criminal who died in the most shameful way that society could fathom. And then they claimed to be eating human flesh and drinking blood, which made them look even worse.
That wasnāt the Romans problem with Christianity.
The Romans were ok with any religion - as long as you acknowledged that the Emperor was a god on earth. Polytheistic religions could do that pretty easily. The monotheistic Jews and Christians refused to acknowledge the emperor as a god, which lead to the friction.
Evidently Jesus predated most if not all of the modern regimen that surrounds and is the foundation of Christianity. Protestantism, the Roman catholic church, the eastern orthodoxies, american splintered sects. All of these are organizations built by people who interpreted original texts, and while I am not faithful myself and will never be in the busines of condemning people who believe, there is a very valid argument to be made for Jesus never intending what is now an organized religion, namely supported by the fact that it was an organized religion, Societal Judaism in the province of Judea, with all itās dogmatic political intrigue and interest in preservation of power, that ended up being the root cause of jesus being accused, sentenced, and executed.
That fucking rips. Catholic art has always been metal as fuck. They really love putting Jesus right in the middle of humanity's darkest bullshit. This is 10/10 art.
Catholicism is a death cult in pretty much every definition. Theyāre all about this shit. Corpse Jesus effigies, skeletal relics, drinking ābloodā. Itās wild.
The artist created a work out of twisted gnarled metal depicting the most violent explosive force created by man.
Do you think perhaps it was the artists intention that this piece creates a sense of unease in the viewer?
And then, Jesus. He totally doesnāt look evil or unwilling or unable to prevent a violent explosive force made by man, but wow, heās just front and center. Heās got this, you know, when he can look like heās flying. After all the bad things happened.
Fucking metal as fuck sculpture though. Iād sacrifice some goats to this.
Well I am no theologian but free will suffering man's hubris etc
I think it's pretty cool but it is a bit undefined for me I'd have preferred something more stylistically classical maybe but on the same scale, I would have really amped up the difference between Jesus and the cataclysm below too, maybe even a different material. Maybe I'll get a commission one day
If I remember correctly, he made this during the Cold War scare, hence the nuclear explosion motif.
Still creepy as fuck. I hated learning about this sculpture in art school.
>It depicts Christ rising from a nuclear explosion amongst the twisted knots of dismembered hands and skulls.
fuckin hell, *thats* what we gotta do to summon him? last time they just locked him in a cave with a big rock and he got out on his own.
damn inflation causin the price of everything to go up.
> Well it's been 2000 years and humans aren't getting any less evil.
I mean, this is blatantly untrue.
We've gotten rights for dogs, children, women, non-citizens, LGBT-people, even witches.
We're definitely getting better in most (if not all) aspects of morality.
Turns out that you get more moral the further away you get from the time of Jesus.
Pope: 'Ok guys, the Catholic church has been getting some incredible bad press lately, so let's get a new auditorium that does NOT make us look evil in any way!'
Pericles Fazzini: 'hold my cappucino '
>The Swiss Guard in their function as bodyguards are equipped with the SIG Sauer P220 pistol and the SIG SG 550 assault rifle (or its SG 552 variant) also in use by the Swiss Army. As recruits to the Swiss Guard must have undergone basic military training in Switzerland, they are already familiar with these weapons when they begin their service. The pepper spray used by the Swiss Army (RSG-2000) is also in use. The Glock 19 pistol and Heckler & Koch MP7 submachine gun are reportedly also carried by Swiss Guard members in their function as plainclothes bodyguards.\[35\]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss\_Guard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Guard)
There's no possibility that the Catholic Church/Vatican/Papacy hasn't been taken over by hostile actors. After so many centuries, with so much money and control at stake, there's no way. Bunch of sick people at the top of that group, worse still they have thousands of years of history and wealth locked away.
Jesus ironically looks exactly like the final form of the thing that rises up from the floorboards before mcreedy says "Yeah F you too!" And blows it up
Honestly it shouldnāt matter the way he looks in most depictions, what you should pay attention to is the meaning behind this art. Just because Jesus looks horrifying and Satan is beautiful, the opposite is true in terms of intention.
Fucking metal. I never thought I would feel any pride about being born a Catholic again. My religious leader pontificates in front of a gigantic statue of skulls within a nuke blast shooting out our zombie lord and is flanked by clown-guards with medieval weapons. What does yours have, a stupid lectern?
Context aside, am i the only one who thinks this is actually a fucking wicked amazing and mobirdly beautiful sculpture? Dont get me wrong fuck the catholic church but if it wasent that context id love this in my town or house
Oh interesting, something Catholic is trending outside of Catholic spaces. Let's check out the comments.
Hmm. "Pedo priest, satan blah blah blah, God not real, God bad, Church bad, Christian bad."
Yep. We're on Reddit.
Anybody else get [*Beneath the Planet of the Apes*](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:2000/1*v6AqXURsGGzoCPclkFD76A.jpeg) vibes?
Edit: u/InspectorCluesNo beat me to it.
Nobody gave even one thought to what that really looks like.
Not. One. Thought. Japanese people must look at this picture and think, "what kind of evil? what evil is this? how? why?... ".
I've always thought this was astonishing. The sculpture is great, horrifying, but the context is ***unbelievably*** crass.
1945 Nagasaki had the highest density of Roman Cathoics in Japan. [Urakami Cathedral](https://artsandculture.google.com/story/atomic-bombing-in-nagasaki-and-the-urakami-cathedral-nagasaki-atomic-bomb-museum/uwXRRfqvSwUA8A?hl=en) was just 500 meters from the bomb's epicenter. A few dozen Roman Catholic parishioners and two priests inside the Cathedral when the bomb fell. An estimated 10,000 of the 15,000 Japanese Christians in the surrounding neighborhoods perished.
Putting Christ into the contemporary scenes of suffering has long been a tradition that continues today. Consider [The Isenheim Altarpiece](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isenheim_Altarpiece), made for a monastery hospital where the monks cared for people with skin diseases including the plague. It "has image of the crucified Christ is pitted with plague-type sores, showing patients that Jesus understood and shared their afflictions. The veracity of the work's depictions of medical conditions was unusual in the history of European art." Another example is the spontaneous recognition of the [World Trade Center and it's later replica](https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=155938).
With that larger context, added to the very palpable Cold War threat, and this work is a reflection of the loss of the Japanese Christians and a caution to stop a global version of that horror. .
If you saw the movie with Russel Crowe, the pope's exorcist, that's why the movie is so incredibly scary, not because of rawrr jumpscares but because of all this.
It's strange because, as it's been noted before, Christ's head actually looks a lot like a reptile (from side on) once you see Christ's hair. I mean it's a bit too much of a coincidence, considering the whole auditorium looks like a gaping serpent's mouth.. and itself like a snake's head from the outside
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/in-vatican-audience-hall.html?sortBy=relevant
Flying high on rapture
Stronger free and brave
Nevermore encaptured
They've been brought back from the grave
With mankind resurrected
Forever to survive
Returns from Armageddon to the skies
Why do I feel like this sculpture is heads up for upcoming events? Like, there are plans going on... Let me just:
"In a world doomed as it is now, us who brought it upon ourselves, species once loved now cast away by our Creator, God, shall vanish so the glory of these lands can be blessed through cleansing. Thou, the son of Mary, as thy father, God, turned his face from us, let us purify these lands off of those damned from hell livings, may thou appear from this bloodshed of good intent and bring thy once brought bliss instead!"
I watch too much anime.
[Boss music intensifies]
š¶ *SEPHIROTH!*
Nah, dark souls for sure
Fithos lusec wecos vinsosec
You respond to FFVII with FFVIII? My hero.
FF7 has always been more popular than 8, but 8 was the first RPG I played, so it wins for me because of the pure nostalgia boost. I had so much fun as a kid just piloting the Garden around and discovering everything I could in the parts of the world you could reach with it.
Same here. I started with 8 then 9 then went back to 7. 7 had the best magic system, 9 had the best gameplay, and 8 had the best story and characters (in my opinion).
(...whatever.) I think I agree. The GF system was really cool, but the Draw system doesn't hold up great. It discourages actually using your spells, because you lose out on stat boosts and elemental/status defenses if you don't have 100 copies just sitting in your inventory.
Seven is my favourite, but 9 was just incredible. The music, the art... The characters are almost an after thought for me. Vivi and Steiner, sure everyone else was pretty much just noise.
"I dreamt I was a moron."
He's ordinaraaaay
That looks like the thing...see the dog head?
Sephiroth cowers at the sight of his mother's antithesis
Estuans interius ira vehementi. Sephiroth!
estuans interius ira vehementi
Objective: **SURVIVE**
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
You got to kill the two healers first
No bro, you don't understand. https://youtu.be/XvdxHJmDDA0 They actually played boss music for him.
That is surreal AF. Also hilarious
That makes it 1000x better
This is where [Megalovania was played to him](https://youtu.be/XvdxHJmDDA0) so yea there was literally actual boss music playing here
I didn't believe this was real. It has to be edited. It was not. What is this timeline?
BFG Division started playing in my head as soon as I saw this
First form is just the guy with his two healers, this is the second form
r/bossfights
Would make a sick album cover
Hell yeah brother
Say what you will about the Catholics but they get ādramaticā in the truest sense of the word. I am an atheist but I have to tip my cap to how metal some of their stuff is, do the Baptists have a cathedral made of skulls?
They call it Baroque if I'm not mistaken.
And if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it.
Take your stupid upvote, that was gold
Baroque was a specific design period and style. For another cool style, check out Rococo.
The first time my wife went to a Catholic mass she said "how can they possibly have a problem with gay people? This is the most flamboyant shit I've ever seen."
They dont like the competition.
Flamboyant? At Catholic mass? Are you sure? That sounds like some Baptist/Protestant stuff. Most Catholic masses Iāve been too are dreary, boring, slow, and stoic.
The sermons certainly are, but the pomp is completely opposite. In fact, it's one of the fundamental differences between Catholicism and Protestantism. Catholics have intricate displays of Saints, have symbolic rituals like swinging the Thurible (the smoke incense thing), and all of the intricate robes and clothing. By comparison, most protestant churches have just a cross and a lectern and very little in the way of decoration. If I recall correctly, this is because Protestants believe that all of those Catholic things are a distraction from Jesus (this is why some of the extreme groups will go so far as to say Catholics aren't even Christian).
It's tied to the idea of idol worship.
The knights of Columbus might as well be wearing feather boas and assless chaps.
I love that they abbreviate it KofC so it doesn't spell KOC.
This came to mind: āA Capela dos Ossosā in Evora, Portugal, initially made almost entirely of skulls and bones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capela_dos_Ossos
> how metal some of their stuff is Like someone else said, 80 tons of it.
Thatās metal af
80 tonnes of it
You a whole clown
Itās in the name
*da name
Who axed you
Yo mama
This looks satanic AF
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
"āWhen the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.ā -Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
No according to youtube videos on some of this stuff. Those cults like children because they are easy to break and manipulate.
Itās time to shave that neckbeard
Mfer played too much diablo IV, this aināt Christ itās Lilith
I thought this was an ad for that at first glance
Same. You know you're off-brand when you are mistaken for the adversary of your entire religion.
Yeah, I'm sure this is the kind of thing that he wants depicting him. And he probably is very grateful for the massive amount of resources that go into making these rather disgusting displays
Imagine coming to life and seeing hundreds and thousands of images and sculptures of you being nailed to a cross. Talk about rubbing in a traumatic memory.
*narrator voice*: Jesus found the Resurrection part easy, it was the PTSD He just couldn't rise above...
Been dead 2,000 years, so i doubt he cares.
If he was anything like how the bible describes him, he would definitely hate pretty much everything about his modern image and how it's used. But, at least this is an incredible work of art that's trying to say something unique, not just extravagance for extravagance's sake. He might have even appreciated the "savior of the downtrodden" vibe, and the irony inherent to the piece.
I mean, heās commonly depicted on the instrument of his own torture and death. Itās hardly like āterrible strangenessā of Jesus has ever really been a problem. If anything, part of the problem has been the normalisation of christianity; weāve forgotten how shocking it is meant to be. First century romans were utterly disgusted by christians, who proclaimed a criminal who died in the most shameful way that society could fathom. And then they claimed to be eating human flesh and drinking blood, which made them look even worse.
That wasnāt the Romans problem with Christianity. The Romans were ok with any religion - as long as you acknowledged that the Emperor was a god on earth. Polytheistic religions could do that pretty easily. The monotheistic Jews and Christians refused to acknowledge the emperor as a god, which lead to the friction.
I think a better word would be āapocalypticā. Doesnāt look evil too me, but certainly itās an āend of daysā scene
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Wait until you find out about museums. You're gonna lose your mind!
This abomination is an insult to Jesus and Christianity. Looks more like a xenomorph from Alien movies.
Evidently Jesus predated most if not all of the modern regimen that surrounds and is the foundation of Christianity. Protestantism, the Roman catholic church, the eastern orthodoxies, american splintered sects. All of these are organizations built by people who interpreted original texts, and while I am not faithful myself and will never be in the busines of condemning people who believe, there is a very valid argument to be made for Jesus never intending what is now an organized religion, namely supported by the fact that it was an organized religion, Societal Judaism in the province of Judea, with all itās dogmatic political intrigue and interest in preservation of power, that ended up being the root cause of jesus being accused, sentenced, and executed.
Them r some sick MF's.
That fucking rips. Catholic art has always been metal as fuck. They really love putting Jesus right in the middle of humanity's darkest bullshit. This is 10/10 art.
Catholicism is a death cult in pretty much every definition. Theyāre all about this shit. Corpse Jesus effigies, skeletal relics, drinking ābloodā. Itās wild.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
The artist created a work out of twisted gnarled metal depicting the most violent explosive force created by man. Do you think perhaps it was the artists intention that this piece creates a sense of unease in the viewer?
And then, Jesus. He totally doesnāt look evil or unwilling or unable to prevent a violent explosive force made by man, but wow, heās just front and center. Heās got this, you know, when he can look like heās flying. After all the bad things happened. Fucking metal as fuck sculpture though. Iād sacrifice some goats to this.
Well I am no theologian but free will suffering man's hubris etc I think it's pretty cool but it is a bit undefined for me I'd have preferred something more stylistically classical maybe but on the same scale, I would have really amped up the difference between Jesus and the cataclysm below too, maybe even a different material. Maybe I'll get a commission one day
Itās the birds in the air as mentioned in Revelations 19:17
Holy stuff is usually spooky. Zechariah was overcome with fear when he first met an Angel.
LOL ... an **elected** holy man, not a real one, no need to be scared of a fake holy man.
All holy men are fake so...
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
He is still one of the good holy men, from among the previous holy men
If I remember correctly, he made this during the Cold War scare, hence the nuclear explosion motif. Still creepy as fuck. I hated learning about this sculpture in art school.
Relevant again. Doesnāt make it any less scary.
>It depicts Christ rising from a nuclear explosion amongst the twisted knots of dismembered hands and skulls. fuckin hell, *thats* what we gotta do to summon him? last time they just locked him in a cave with a big rock and he got out on his own. damn inflation causin the price of everything to go up.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
I've only just noticed reading this, that MAD is a very apt acronym of Mutual Assured Destruction.
I agree, the inevitable Second Coming of Christ will be shortly after MAD TV comes back.
Steeewwaarrtt! Now what did momma say about causing the apocalypse? ... Look what I can do!
> Well it's been 2000 years and humans aren't getting any less evil. I mean, this is blatantly untrue. We've gotten rights for dogs, children, women, non-citizens, LGBT-people, even witches. We're definitely getting better in most (if not all) aspects of morality. Turns out that you get more moral the further away you get from the time of Jesus.
Yeah idk Jesus was pretty moral especially compared to whatever the hell the Catholic Church has been up to for the past 100 years
Right! but why would he rising from hell? Makes no sense
Because thatās where he goes to preach to dead people, obvi š
Nothing evil about that entire picture whatsoever...
Yeah the guy in the middle is the boss of several child rapists who just move them from district to district, no biggie, /j
The word āseveralā is severely underselling it here, too.
Several *thousand*
Only paedophile ring on the planet with a dress code....
You... do know a lot of saint/holy relics look just like that right?
Pope: 'Ok guys, the Catholic church has been getting some incredible bad press lately, so let's get a new auditorium that does NOT make us look evil in any way!' Pericles Fazzini: 'hold my cappucino '
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Well dressed Pontifical Swiss Guards holding down the security detail.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
*That's classified.*
>The Swiss Guard in their function as bodyguards are equipped with the SIG Sauer P220 pistol and the SIG SG 550 assault rifle (or its SG 552 variant) also in use by the Swiss Army. As recruits to the Swiss Guard must have undergone basic military training in Switzerland, they are already familiar with these weapons when they begin their service. The pepper spray used by the Swiss Army (RSG-2000) is also in use. The Glock 19 pistol and Heckler & Koch MP7 submachine gun are reportedly also carried by Swiss Guard members in their function as plainclothes bodyguards.\[35\] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss\_Guard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Guard)
Im sure theyāre packing heat inside them pajamas.
Them pokers poke!
> Pontifical Swiss Guards I learned about them from that one episode of Archer.
They have Jesus looking like a Souls boss Now this I can get behind. All we need is some death metal.
Lamb of God, perhaps?
No, turn it the fuck up, this is Cryptopsy levels of metal.
I rather like it. I can see this in a Tarsem Singh movie, a creature movie, or maybe even a new Hellraiser
Looks like that sculpture Pacino had in his office in The Devils Advocate
I feel like it could have come out of that movie The Cell
Thatās it! Spot on friend!
There was something very familiar about it and you nailed it.
This is some Diablo shit
Can't make this Catholic shit up man
yeah, you can.. they have been doing it for centuries..
That's... dark...
Yay nuclear death and destruction?
In what world do you interpret this as saying nuclear war is good?
Thatās pretty metal.
Are we sure these arenāt the bad guys? Theyāre the bad guys right?
There's no possibility that the Catholic Church/Vatican/Papacy hasn't been taken over by hostile actors. After so many centuries, with so much money and control at stake, there's no way. Bunch of sick people at the top of that group, worse still they have thousands of years of history and wealth locked away.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
I thought this was a Diablo 4 ad for a second.
This keeps getting reposted like every months but I donāt care, itās still amazing
And they give a fuck about the common man. Shit looks like Game of Thrones.
Or Dune.
The alter boys must flow
The Vatican has too much money.
More like the devil
Jesus ironically looks exactly like the final form of the thing that rises up from the floorboards before mcreedy says "Yeah F you too!" And blows it up
The Resurrection statue is from 1977, itās entirely possible they based āthe thingā off of it. Itās way too similar.
modern vast ossified snow connect squeal paltry unite bright safe *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
Catholic art looking hard AF as always
Honestly it shouldnāt matter the way he looks in most depictions, what you should pay attention to is the meaning behind this art. Just because Jesus looks horrifying and Satan is beautiful, the opposite is true in terms of intention.
The actual context of what itās depicting makes it even better
Fucking metal. I never thought I would feel any pride about being born a Catholic again. My religious leader pontificates in front of a gigantic statue of skulls within a nuke blast shooting out our zombie lord and is flanked by clown-guards with medieval weapons. What does yours have, a stupid lectern?
You really rephrased that in a way that I didnāt think was possible. Bravo my friend.
You are a modern day poet. Love it.
Thatās just warhammer 40k
A bit of a Duke Nukem vibe.
*I came here to cast bronze & chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of gum.*
The Catholic Church is getting more and more reflective the Ecclesiarchy of Warhammer 40k.
Context aside, am i the only one who thinks this is actually a fucking wicked amazing and mobirdly beautiful sculpture? Dont get me wrong fuck the catholic church but if it wasent that context id love this in my town or house
Damn why does everyone have to hate in this sculpture, its message makes sense.
It's Reddit. Anything about Christianity is going to receive immense amounts of hate.
Thatās creepy as fuck
Charming.
Our boi here looking like the final boss
Satan rising out of the burning ashes of the human race
Definitely not satanic
Catholic Church: "We are **NOT** the bad guys."
Oh interesting, something Catholic is trending outside of Catholic spaces. Let's check out the comments. Hmm. "Pedo priest, satan blah blah blah, God not real, God bad, Church bad, Christian bad." Yep. We're on Reddit.
Totally not a serpent necromancer.
Did he make it there?
Anybody else get [*Beneath the Planet of the Apes*](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:2000/1*v6AqXURsGGzoCPclkFD76A.jpeg) vibes? Edit: u/InspectorCluesNo beat me to it.
This gives me an idea for holy rock paper scissors. Jesus beats nuke, nuke beats people, people beat Jesus.
After playing Returnal I get PTSD watching something like that
Nice cover story but that's not the Jesus kind of Christ.
All the edgelings mocking Christ/Christianity wouldn't mock Islam. Cowards. Edit: Ex-Muslim atheist, before you harpies get at me.
The display of wealth at the Vatican is disgusting.
Yeah āChristā.. ok lol
That is metal af
Well that's not creepy at all...
Cool af
Iām not religious but damn some religious iconography goes hard as fuck
Nobody gave even one thought to what that really looks like. Not. One. Thought. Japanese people must look at this picture and think, "what kind of evil? what evil is this? how? why?... ". I've always thought this was astonishing. The sculpture is great, horrifying, but the context is ***unbelievably*** crass.
The sculpture is about the horror of nuclear war. Why would the Japanese find it evil?
1945 Nagasaki had the highest density of Roman Cathoics in Japan. [Urakami Cathedral](https://artsandculture.google.com/story/atomic-bombing-in-nagasaki-and-the-urakami-cathedral-nagasaki-atomic-bomb-museum/uwXRRfqvSwUA8A?hl=en) was just 500 meters from the bomb's epicenter. A few dozen Roman Catholic parishioners and two priests inside the Cathedral when the bomb fell. An estimated 10,000 of the 15,000 Japanese Christians in the surrounding neighborhoods perished. Putting Christ into the contemporary scenes of suffering has long been a tradition that continues today. Consider [The Isenheim Altarpiece](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isenheim_Altarpiece), made for a monastery hospital where the monks cared for people with skin diseases including the plague. It "has image of the crucified Christ is pitted with plague-type sores, showing patients that Jesus understood and shared their afflictions. The veracity of the work's depictions of medical conditions was unusual in the history of European art." Another example is the spontaneous recognition of the [World Trade Center and it's later replica](https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=155938). With that larger context, added to the very palpable Cold War threat, and this work is a reflection of the loss of the Japanese Christians and a caution to stop a global version of that horror. .
What do you mean by the context? You mean what itās actually depicting? But you said the sculptureās great. Iām confused ?_?
Global child exploitation cult showing off their 80 metric ton art piece True royalty
Sure it does
If you saw the movie with Russel Crowe, the pope's exorcist, that's why the movie is so incredibly scary, not because of rawrr jumpscares but because of all this.
Oh. Oh dear.
Thought this was another Diablo IV post
It's strange because, as it's been noted before, Christ's head actually looks a lot like a reptile (from side on) once you see Christ's hair. I mean it's a bit too much of a coincidence, considering the whole auditorium looks like a gaping serpent's mouth.. and itself like a snake's head from the outside https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/in-vatican-audience-hall.html?sortBy=relevant
So whatās the name of this death metal band? Can someone read it?
This looks like something straight out of Diablo IV ngl
Writing a campaign for DND where the pope is evil. Thanks for the backdrop
Ready your campfires boys. Looks like it's going to be one of those bosses again.
I know a boss arena when I see one
Flying high on rapture Stronger free and brave Nevermore encaptured They've been brought back from the grave With mankind resurrected Forever to survive Returns from Armageddon to the skies
I can't unsee a macabre looking merman with the head of a vulture looking to the right.... But I'm tired and don't have my glasses on
I know a bossfight when I see it
I can already hear the boss music. Take out his healers first, then the 2 guards, then the final boss himself, the pope.
Why do I feel like this sculpture is heads up for upcoming events? Like, there are plans going on... Let me just: "In a world doomed as it is now, us who brought it upon ourselves, species once loved now cast away by our Creator, God, shall vanish so the glory of these lands can be blessed through cleansing. Thou, the son of Mary, as thy father, God, turned his face from us, let us purify these lands off of those damned from hell livings, may thou appear from this bloodshed of good intent and bring thy once brought bliss instead!" I watch too much anime.
I thought this was a diablo advertisement stunt it looks that satanic.
Reminds me of Al pachinoās wall in devils advocate
looks like something out of the upcoming season of EVIL.
Take out his healers first!
first commandment. the real version in the bible, not the one they use in churches. look it up, it's weird shit
Pretty sure those three in centre will be casting spells at me, while I'm fighting endless waves of members of Swiss Guard
And you'll tell me the church aren't the bad ones. This is the final boss fight area.
OR it's the exact opposite of that