On Palm Sunday protesters in Avignon tried to smash a blasphemous work of art with a hammer. The artwork, called "P--- Christ", was a photograph of a statue of Christ submerged in urine. Its display had provoked anger among Christians in France: last Saturday about 1,000 people marched in protest against it. Archbishop Jean-Pierre Cattenoz of Vaucluse called the work (by Andres Serrano) “odious”. Were the protesters right to try to destroy it? It is sinful, surely, to vandalise private property. Except, perhaps, if there is a greater good: that of removing something from view that seems to express hatred of God. Liz Lev, an art historian at Duquesne University, told EWTN:
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Debate: Is it a sin to destroy a blasphemous artwork?
Or can it sometimes be morally legitimate to demolish objects that appear to mock Christianity?
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