And on angels: - [#mg] http://reubenscube.net/wp-content/uploa ... 00x382.jpg[/img] - Left – “The Resurrection” (1873) by Carl Heinrich Bloch. Right – the version printed on page 54 of the December 2011 Ensign, the official magazine of the LDS church, photoshopped to remove wings and add cap sleeves to the angels.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
ludwigm wrote:And on angels: - - Left – “The Resurrection” (1873) by Carl Heinrich Bloch. Right – the version printed on page 54 of the December 2011 Ensign, the official magazine of the LDS church, photoshopped to remove wings and add cap sleeves to the angels.
It should have been shown wizh a little more photoshopped: - -
In this photo from the "Family Guidebook," the girl kneeling at the right was wearing shorts in the original photo, but they photoshopped them into pants (and not very well, either). I worked on that manual, so I saw the before and after.
malkie wrote:We know that the church is always very careful that it's artwork conveys the correct message.
Until their website gets hacked and someone puts up a giant phallus.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
My favorites are from the original Mormon photoshopper, Joseph Smith:
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775