The church is alive and well in Russia. Evidently so is religious fanaticism. Yuri Samodurov, curator of the Sakhavrov museum in Moscow, and his colleague Lyudmila Vasilovskaya were charged last year with inciting religious hatred after an exhibition they staged was defaced by an angry mob of young men. Caution!Religion caused so much angst that the museum was forced to shut the exhibit down–apparently before any decent photos of the sacrilege(which included an interactive Icon that allowed the visitor to pose as the icon and a Coke label with Jesus’ face that proclaimed, “This is my blood”) could be taken. Sadly, the exhibit only came to notice of those pesky Western reporter types after the “art” was branded blasphemous with what appears to be black paint. Here are the sad remains:
Samodurav and Vasilovskaya were both found guilty today and fined 100,000 roubles.
And the French were worried Jesus would turn up selling socks! I always suspected Jesus preferred Coke to Pepsi.
