Stupid News-Museum defies pope over crucified frog

Stupid News-Museum defies pope over crucified frog

By Philip Pullella

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian museum Thursday defied Pope Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg that the Vatican had condemned as blasphemous.

The board of the Museion museum in the northern city of Bolzano decided by a majority vote that the frog was a work of art and would stay in place for the remainder of an exhibition.

The wooden sculpture by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger depicts a frog about 1 meter 30 cm (4 feet) high nailed to brown cross and holding a beer mug in one outstretched hand and an egg in another.

Called "Zuerst die Fuesse," (Feet First), it wears a green loin cloth and is nailed through the hands and the feet in the manner of Jesus Christ. Its green tongue hangs out of its mouth.

Kippenberger's works have been shown at the Tate Modern and the Saatchi Gallery in London and at the Venice Biennale, and retrospectives are planned in Los Angeles and New York.

Museum officials in the northern bi-lingual Alto Adige region near the Austrian border said the artist, who died in 1997, considered it a self-portrait illustrating human angst.

Pope Benedict, who is German himself and was recently on holiday not far from Bolzano, obviously did not agree.

The Vatican wrote a letter of support in the pope's name to Franz Pahl, president of the regional government who opposed the sculpture. Pahl released parts of the letter, which said the work "wounds the religious sentiments of so many people who see in the cross the symbol of God's love."

Pahl, whose province is heavily Catholic, was so outraged by the sculpture of the pop-eyed amphibian that he went on a hunger strike to demand its removal and had to be taken to hospital during the summer.

"Surely this is not a work of art but a blasphemy and a disgusting piece of trash that upsets many people," Pahl told Reuters by telephone.

"This decision to keep the statue there is is totally unacceptable. It is a grave offence to our Catholic population," he said.

Art experts defended the work.

"Art must always be free and the artist should not have any restrictions on freedom of expression," Claudio Strinati, a superintendent for Rome's state museums, told an Italian newspaper Thursday.

(Editing by Robert Hart)

Odd News - Pastor Harry BIBLE CODE: COMET IMPACT: 2012 AD

Odd News - BIBLE CODE: COMET IMPACT: 2012 AD

Read these scary predictions from Pastor Harry

When we study The Book of Revelation and Bible Prophecy, we realize that Comet Impact will happen and plays a major role in events during the Great Tribulation. Here is a six point summary of why I believe a massive Comet is heading towards Earth and 2012 AD may be The Year for Impact.

1) NASA & DEEP IMPACT

In Feb 2004, NASA accounced that The 10th planet, "Planet X" is real and is a comet planet. They named this comet, SEDNA and claim it will safely pass over 950 million miles from earth.

Yet on 12 JAN 2005, NASA launched "Deep Impact" a comet buster satellite that will impact Comet Tempel 1 (a small comet) on JULY 4 2005. NASA hopes to smash a 100 ft deep creater into this Comet. More than likely "deep impact" contains a bunker buster, nuclear warhead that will crash deep within the comet and detonate. IS THIS TARGET PRACTICE FOR THE DOOMSDAY COMET: 2012 AD ? It is interesting that Comet Tempel 1 will be impacted as it travels between Jupiter and Mars, the exact, ancient course of NIBIRU, The Comet Planet.

2) MAYAN CALENDAR

The ancient Mayans were "given" a 5000 Year Calendar by their god, Quezecoatal. The Calendar ends on DEC 22 2012 as The "Year of Doomsday". It is very possible this Calendar was Extra- Terrestrial and predicts a cosmic event, such as Comet Impact.

3) COMET PLANET

The ancient world of Sumer to Babylon were "taught" by their gods about The Comet Planet, called "Nibiru". This is a massive Comet Planet, believed to pass earth every 3600 years, coming thru the Asteroid Belt between Jupiter and Mars.

In Jos:10, (O.T.) we read of "A day of 24 hours, when the earth stood still". This could have been caused by the passing of the Comet Planet. Its gravitational pull could have reversed spun Earth on its axis, creating a day of 24 hours. If we take the Mayan year of 2012 AD and subtract 3600 years (orbit of Comet Planet) we get 1588 BC, around the time of Joshua and the "day earth stood still".

4) THIRD PROPHECY OF FATIMA
AND THE BIBLE CODE

The Vatican has hidden The Third Prophecy of Fatima (Portugal 1917 AD). In 1984 Pope John Paul 2 said, "The catastrophic nature of the third prophecy is so great that millions of lives will be lost. There is no need to panic the world over such a great loss of life". The Pope also spoke of "global tidal waves and earthquakes of a terrible magnitude." All of This Points To Comet Impact, The Coming of The Comet Planet.

I have discovered in THE BIBLE CODE, what The Third Prophecy of Fatima is... and it is COMET IMPACT. A Great Cataclysm to Impact Earth. In other Bible Codes, I have found COMET and WORMWOOD that will smash earth (Rev:8) encoded with the year 2010 AD and 2012 AD. The First Date could be when the Comet Planet is first sighted, 2012 AD could be The Date of IMPACT.

5) NOSTRADAMUS

"In the year 1999 and seven months, The Great King of Terror shall come from the sky". I believe this is the Comet Planet, NIBIRU, that will trigger global destruction.

The reason that nothing happened in the year 1999 is because Nostradamus could have meant when NASA first discovers the threat of the Comet Planet (using Hubble Telescope). Nostradamus has many quatrains of A Comet bringing great destruction soon after the year 2000, the new millennium. 2012 AD?

6) BOOK OF REVELATION

In light of NASA and its Comet Buster Technology, this gives us a new insight on Rev:8 and Bible Prophecy.

I believe A Comet/ Comet Planet is on a Collision Course with Earth (probably around 2012 AD). NASA will shatter this massive Comet with a "comet buster" nuclear missile. But the core of the Comet will be much harder than NASA believed. This shattered Comet will collide with earth, exactly as we read in Revelation.

A global shower of flaming Meteors (ranging in size from a golf ball to a house) sets one-third of the green grass, vegetation and crops of earth on fire. (Rev:8:8).

An Asteroid (large chunk of comet, one mile in diamater) will crash into the sea and cause a massive Tidal Wave, turrential flooding and more famine (Rev:8:9)

"Wormwood" crashes into the ocean or sea, causing one third of the drinking water to be poisoned. Wormwood may be another "chunk" of this comet or a 100 megaton Russian or Chinese Missile that hits NYC (USA) as W.W. III explodes across Europe, a War fought for food and fresh water.

It is very possible that the Great Tribulation will start between the year 2006 and 2012 AD. In the Bible Code I have found COMET encoded with RAPTURE.

The USA is preparing for War against IRAN and SYRIA as they (as with Saddam) cannot be in possession of nuclear weapons, especially with the coming Threat from The Comet Planet.

In the Gospel, JESUS promises that His True Followers, His Faithful Remnant, will ESCAPE the Tribulation and Comet Impact.

THIS ESCAPE IS BEING
ACCOUNTED WORTHY TO BE
TAKEN IN THE FIRST OF
TWO RAPTURES EVENTS.
(Luke:21:34-36)

IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THESE
WORTHY BELIEVERS ARE CALLED THE
CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA.

"Because you kept My Word of
My Patience, I will also
Keep you from the hour of
Testing that will try all who
Dwell upon the face of the
whole earth." (Rev:3:10)

God Bless You In These End Times
Pastor Harry
Church of Philadelphia -Internet

http://www.satansrapture.com/nasa2012.htm