Tedious, childish and exhausted: officially sanctioned transgression worth no more than an eye-roll
Yes children, desecrating sacred spaces is still bad.
What the “it’s just stickers” crowd couldn’t grasp and what the people shouting online were trying to articulate: some things belong to God, and not to us.
us.
This week social media denizens were treated to photos of an “art installation” at perhaps the most sacred site of all English-speaking Christianity, consisting of inner-city-style “graffiti” apparently painted on the interior walls and columns.
It appeared without widespread public warning or consultation, turning a holy place, created in the 6th century for the divine worship, the site of centuries of prayer, martyrdom and pilgrimage, into a stage for a bit of tawdry protest art.
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