#religious-imagery

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4 days ago

Trump posts and then deletes Jesus-like AI image of himself

The AI-generated image, which was posted on his Truth Social platform late on Sunday night, showed Trump dressed in a flowing white and red robe, putting his hands on a sick man in a way typically associated with faith healing in America.
US Elections
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fromThe Atlantic
3 months ago

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A family views a church nativity whose gold-painted figures appear awe-inspiring up close, but reveal chipping paint and an empty, powder-filled manger.
fromInverse
4 months ago

Anne Hathaway's Exciting New Pop Star Thriller Could Be Hiding A Supernatural Twist

The movie stars Anne Hathaway as Mother Mary, a world-famous pop star, and Michaela Coel as Sam, a fashion designer she turns to for a dress. It seems like a drama at first, but the trailer soon reveals something else as Sam draws a chalk circle on the floor. "You think there's something inside you?" she asks. "Let's cast her out. Together."
Film
Music
fromVulture
5 months ago

Rosalia Shatters All Expectations With Lux

Rosalía's fourth album blends religious imagery, personal heartbreak, and theatrical music, transforming pop into cathedral-like, provocative art that mixes piety, delusion, and desire.
Philosophy
fromOpen Culture
6 months ago

Why Real Biblical Angels Are Creepy, Beastly, and Hardly Angelic

Biblical angels often appear terrifying, violent, and unlike the gentle, winged figures common in modern imagery.
fromPortland Mercury
7 months ago

TBA Review: Queer Mysticism Meets Telenovela in Inebria Me

At the pinnacle of San Cha's opera Inebria me, an apparition in white emerged: Esperanza (Kyle Kidd), angelic and blood-smeared, clutching a red rose. Dolores (San Cha, the show's librettist and composer) gazed at the spirit, her expression a blend of awe and longing, the unraveling newlywed finally alight with something beyond grief. Her encounter with Esperanza sparked a radical, gender-free religious fervor, one of ecstasy and drama, detached from self-flagellation or duty.
LGBT
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