Image Of the Day

I saw a beautiful statue in a catalog a few weeks ago titled Lament For Icarus. I was just trying to look it up online. Apparently it's based on a painting by Herbert Draper. (Never heard of him til just now.)

( Here's the image, it's pretty big. )

Read This Article.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20126665-7583,00.html


Whether you agree with it or not, it's food for thought. Especially this paragraph:

The truth is that it is now too dangerous for religion to be given the special status it has always had. When large numbers of people, some of them living among us, want to kill us and our innocent children (surely "innocent children" is a tautology) for no other reason than that we do not believe in their God, we can no longer afford to tiptoe around religious sensitivities. It is time to get rid of the taboo that says religious beliefs have to be quarantined from criticism. It is time to hold some religious beliefs up to ridicule.