Inspirational Christian images are very, very common. You have almost certainly seen them all your life, with or without noticing. They consist of a short biblical verse printed over a photograph that may be thematically linked to the quotation, or may just be a sunset, a rainbow, or some similar attractive scene.
In addition to their substantial brick-and-mortar presence, these images are also widely displayed, offered, and sold (!) here online. I run into them constantly when I am working on MRtB, and over time I have come to find them a little troubling. So I thought I would make a little game.
What follows are:
Six typical inspirational religious images based on quotes from the first half of Jeremiah, found randomly on the internet.And the three questions, if you are playing the game, are: "Can you tell the difference? How? and What, if any, are the implications?"
Six additional images, also based on quotes from the first half of Jeremiah, that I assembled myself (I used one a few posts back).
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1 comments:
hello, its good to see you start back on the project. i think yours are 2,3,6,7,10,12. the easy answer concerning the implications of this is to say that there is extensive bowdlerization of holy books amongst the fundamentalist faithful, but then realizing that i was unsure of number 8, i think the answer may be more complex. i believe that the faithful may have a curious way of using some exegetical,hermeunetical,or cognitive gymnastics to ignore such plain language. when a verse from the bible appears to be divisive,hateful,irrational,intolerant,violent etc. they can simply not recognize as being such. even so i guess they recognize it enough not to put it on a poster.
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