ART: Press hurt Christian readers

I am writing in regards to the artist Nancy Pepin’s “The Last Snack.”

It was modeled after Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.”

The article stated that she uses Twinkies to depict pop culture similar to Andy Warhol. After seeing the picture and reading the article I had to ask the following questions:

1. Why would a hometown paper be willing to offend many of its readers, who love and worship the very One that the artist used her artistic skill to demean and disrespect, with the visual images of Jesus as a Twinkie and his disciples as Ho’s Ho’s and Ding Dongs?

2. I can see a large, city editor championing such disrespectful satire, and even finding it humorous, but why our hometown paper? Humor that hurts and causes pain is a dangerous kind of humor.

3. You published another sample of her work in the same article. Why did you feel you had to print “The Last Snack,” also?

4. Am I questioning your right to print it? No, but I am questioning your heart.

My first reaction to the article was sorrow with tears following.

I couldn’t believe my eyes, that our hometown paper would show such disrespect to the Christian community.

Again I’m asking. Why?

SHERRON RAMICH

Hayden