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Paul Harvey

The Trouble with Depicting God

Depictions of the sacred are everywhere in modern American society: a white, bearded, and haloed Jesus on the cartoon South Park; a painting of The Last Supper in your grandmother’s living room; Mel Gibson detailing the crucifixion in The Passion of the Christ. But America is not removed from conflict over representations of sacred figures. […]

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