>>7278351You fail to understand how the art world works on the most basis level. No one is stopping you or anyone else from commissioning my friend a $200 picture of Jesus or from making a $300 3d model of Saint Peter. But no one fucking puts the money forth, so it will never get done.
Artists draw what people like, if you think that nerd and otaku characters are not good mediums for art than it's not God's fault, or the Jews, your problem is with the entire fucking human race. Good art is good art. A statue of Jesus or a statue of Mecha can both be equally good pieces of art provided they are both made equally well. And who is to say that Jesus is a more moving and emotional subject than the Mecha? Both are fictional stories.
There's a certain mysticism to art, none of it has to do with organized religion which probably held back art more than anything. Before you post a very nice picture of religious art. Here is a bit of history. Religious art sucked before the Renaissance and high middle ages. As in it actually went backwards. Art was seen as something potentially dangerous because it marveled the senses and being marveled at anything other than God was dangerous. It was an idea that discouraged proper art. Early Christian theology saw man as something ugly, something degenerate, and it was reflected in ugly art. The high middle ages and the Renaissance represented a huge culture shift in Europe, mostly a move away from traditional Christian views. This is where we started getting theology that promoted the divinity of man, a lot of was considered heresy at the time. In general though focus shifted away from Christianity onto man himself, the Greek, Hermetic, Gnostic, Roman, and Persian texts which were being influential helped promote this.
Now in a secular world God is completely forgotten and we are allowed to say that man is fully divine without God as his rival. So you can still have the mysticism without God.
