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I knew Jeff Sharlet from Killing the Buddha<\/a> and his great Harper’s<\/i> piece on New Life Church in Colorado Springs<\/a>. It turns out that he has a quirky personal blog too: Call Me Ishmael<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Check out his comments on Christian fundamentalist art<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My tentative theory: As religious art traditionally uses eroticism to channel worldly desires toward spiritual concerns, contemporary fundamentalist art uses eroticism to channel sex — the visual currency of power in an advertising culture — away from women and toward men. Either that, or it’s a vast gay conspiracy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I knew Jeff Sharlet from Killing the Buddha and his great Harper’s piece on New Life Church in Colorado Springs. It turns out that he has a quirky personal blog too: Call Me Ishmael. Check out his comments on Christian fundamentalist art. 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