There are a whole shit load of Catholic images in my part of Brooklyn. It has a large Italian, and Polish community as well as recent arrivals from Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean. I walk around quite a bit and see a lot of these things daily. I was an altar-boy and went to Catholic grade school and high school. I love these kinds of images. The sense that people feel devoted and inspired by them is to the point that you can almost feel it when you see these statues or paintings. I wish that, in my mind, these types of images were not tied to a religion that persecutes and excludes people because of who they love. While I find them beautiful, they are a bit horrible in a sense because of they are also are linked to history of bigotry, persecution, violence, and dogmatic laws.
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