Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K
pyrflie@lemm.ee 3 months agoIt really isn’t. Punk is what fights this shit. This is Authority.
I’d disagree. Stuff like this springs out of acts of popular piety. When you teach that the relics of people in heaven can work as prayer aides, it’s a foregone conclusion that some may want to to wallpaper a prayer space with the highest class of relics.
It’s an unanticipated reaction to authority, ergo punk.
I can’t tell if you are stupid or counter counter punk. My brain glich shorted out the rest but I will be looking at your posts, so good on ya?
I edited for clarity to explain that I’m referring to the subgenre pop punk, which one could easily argue is not punk.
I get where you are coming from. Skull Aesthetic can be used to represent both authority (Religion/govt) and rebellion (Pirates/Bandits), but Holy Relics only really rep one side of that equation. Your Pop-Punk blow works as a jab/word play. That said your label isn’t actually Punk /s :).
What if I steal it?
Iconoclasm is punk?
If it destroys an Empire it sure is!
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 months ago
The look of it. I still have trouble beliving the Catholic church has this? It looks like art.
pyrflie@lemm.ee 3 months ago
These are pre-Christian Imperial Roman catacombs. The important part is the Imperial. People seem to forget that Rome was Authoritarian, and extremely, homicidaly so.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 months ago
It still looks cool
pyrflie@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Hell yeah it does. Why do you think the religions that used it did so well?
nyctre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yep, Christianity is filled with stuff like this and art. Most churches contain a decent amount of art. Most famous of all being the Sistine chapel, ofc. Found out this year about The Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran. Which is basically the Pope’s main church. Always assumed it would be the one in Vatican, but no, it’s a different one, in Rome. It’s a very impressive place. Huge statues. This being the best. St Bart is said to have been skinned alive, hence the knife and his face.