Federal Funded Smithsonian Features Blasphemous Ant-Covered Jesus Exhibit

Federal tax dollars are being spent to show another blasphemous attack of Christianity. In the National Portrait Gallery for a Christmas-season exhibit, there is an image of an ant-covered Jesus. Other images included in this Christmas exhibit include male genitals, naked brothers kissing, men in chains, Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts, and a painting the Smithsonian itself describes in the show's catalog as "homoerotic."

If this is Christmas imagery, permit me to play Scrooge for a few minutes.

The “A Fire in My Belly” exhibit shows a picture of Christ on the cross with ants crawling all over his body and face.

A plaque fixed to the wall at the entrance to the exhibit says that the National Portrait Gallery is “committed to showing how a major theme in American history has been the struggle for justice so that people and groups can claim their full inheritance in America’s promise of equality, inclusion, and social dignity. As America’s museum of national biography, the NPG is also vitally interested in the art of portrayal and how portraiture reflects our ideas about ourselves and others.

An ant-covered Jesus/crucifix in “A Fire in My Belly” video, part of the ‘Hide/Seek’ exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
"These themes, historic and artistic, come together in 'Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,' the first major exhibition to examine the influence of gay and lesbian artists in creating modern American portraiture," says the plaque. "'Hide/Seek' chronicles how, as outsiders, gay and lesbian artists occupied a position that turned to their advantage, making essential contributions to both the art of portraiture and to the creation of modern American culture."

$494 million of your tax dollars are sent to the Smithsonian every year. It should not be used to fund this blasphemy. I have no doubt artists like the person who created this would be the first to complain if a Christian exhibit was placed on federal property for the Christmas season, so why should Christians give them a pass when federal tax dollars are used to fund the display of blasphemy.