I read that a nativity scene that appeared in the window of an erotic pastry shop has ended up being denounced in court for offenses against religion. I’ve looked at a photo of the nativity scene and the only thing I’ve seen, so quickly, has been a kind of animalistic nativity scene in which the human figures seemed to be replaced by vaguely animal figures. Then I realized that it could be an animist nativity scene (the figures would represent spirits: of an ox, of a mule, of mother nature and of something that is not very well known what it could be). But later, myopic that I am, I have realized the impudent presences that would have caused -I imagine- the sudden fainting in the middle of the street of some dona Urraca always in mourning and always clinging to her black umbrella. Is it really for that
If someone does not know what the thing is about, it is likely that they will see the nativity scene without noticing the alleged affront. And that nativity scene, truth be told, is a bit sad. It has even reminded me of those Republicans of the twenties (my grandfather told me about them) who dedicated themselves to “promiscuous” and stood in front of a church, in the middle of Good Friday -when you couldn’t eat meat-, and gobbled up a string of blood sausages and another of cantimpalo sausages to demonstrate that they were very liberal and very secular and did not follow the norms of the Church. Well yes, the truth is, this nativity scene is just as ridiculous as those grotesque republicans who were fed up with eating black pudding on Good Friday.
Is there any reason to be scandalized by a joke as innocuous as that of the supposedly erotic nativity scene
Is it possible to imagine that someone will lose faith because of this clumsy display of bad taste
Is the salvation of any good Christian in danger for dedicating five seconds of his life to this nonsense that looks like an installation by a seventh-rate conceptual artist
I understand that there is people who think that no one would dare to do such a thing in front of a mosque, because the risk of being canceled as Professor Paty was in France (remember that teacher who had his head canceled because a student invented that he had mocked in Mohammed’s class) is an obvious and very serious risk that we all know can be real. On that we agree. But even so, being shocked by this crude plasticine nativity scene is something that gives, at least, a little laugh.
