Dr. Claude Mariottini - Professor of Old Testament: Jesus the Ape?

Just when you thought that secular culture could not insult Jesus and His atoning sacrifice for our sins, things like this happen. Claude Mariottini wrote the following summary:

Artist Paul Fryer’s latest work will cause much controversy. His work, “The Privilege of Dominion,” which is on display at the former Holy Trinity Church in Marylebone , is a crucifix, but instead on Christ on the cross, the cross bears the life-like body of a gorilla.

The purpose of the display is to “highlight [the] plight of the Western Lowland Gorillas, and to challenge the Christian notion that animals do not have souls.”

 I agree we should save gorillas, but an ape did not die for my sin. It was my sin that put Jesus on that cross. It was the sin of killing and mistreating apes that Jesus died. I don't see how the crucifix can call attention to the idea that animals have souls. The work is completely an attack on Christianity.


Dr. Claude Mariottini - Professor of Old Testament: Jesus the Ape?