Read the explanation below the painting and then view the painting.
You can move the mouse over any person, or object (Capital) and the right side of the screen gives a description of that person. Just move the mouse, don't click. All the [great and common] men and women, children, papers, all close up and detailed when mouse over.
www.mcnaughtonart.com/artwork/view_zoom/ [1]
Notice Jesus Christ in the center. All his garments
are explained.
Satan is also in the painting.
Very interesting presentation.
This is an incredible painting by Jon McNaughton.
This painting represents McNaughton's response to criticism of
"One Nation Under God."
The website states that the declaration calls upon all fellow citizens to join in defending "fundamental truths about justice and the common good," namely:
- The sanctity of human life
- The dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife
- The rights of conscience and religious liberty
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Chuck Colson, among other religious leaders, announcing the Manhattan Declaration
Over 150 Orthodox, Catholic and evangelical Christian leaders have signed the Manhattan Declaration, a pledge
"Inasmuch as these truths are foundational to human dignity and the wellbeing of society, they are inviolable and nonnegotiable," the website states. "Because they are increasingly under assault from powerful forces in our culture, we are compelled today to speak out forcefully in their defense, and to commit ourselves to honoring them fully no matter what pressures are brought upon us and our institutions to abandon or compromise them."
The language of the Manhattan Declaration itself, however, is even more bold:
"We are Christians who have joined together across historic lines of ecclesial differences to affirm our right – and, more importantly, to embrace our obligation – to speak and act in defense of these truths," the declaration states. "We pledge to each other, and to our fellow believers, that no power on earth, be it cultural or political, will intimidate us into silence or acquiescence."
At a D.C. press conference [3] last week, Dr. Robert George of Princeton University [3], one of three leaders who drafted the declaration, affirmed that if laws [3] require Christian doctors and hospitals [3] to perform abortion or euthanasia, if the government demands churches bless homosexual 'marriage' or any other dictates attempt to force Christians to act against their moral convictions, there will be no compromise. Recalling the actions of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. years before, George said there may even be call for Christians to engage in civil disobedience:
"We hope and pray that it does not come to this," George said, "that the impositions on conscience will not require anybody to practice civil disobedience. But if it comes to it, as it came to it for Dr. King on the great issue of racial justice, then we have to be prepared to make sacrifices.
"We've always said that we will never compromise what we believe," Colson said, "but this is the first time that all of us have come together across confessional lines and said, 'We're prepared to pay the price. You cannot cross this line, otherwise we will pay the price – we will suffer if we must to avoid doing evil.'"
"'Suffering,' being what?" Huckabee asked.
"'Suffering' being prison, loss of your tax exemption," Colson answered. "We're saying, 'If we're a doctor and we're told to perform an abortion or to refer someone for an abortion, we will refuse. And if you want to put us in prison, put us in prison.'"
[///] A line in the concrete, and a team of powerful people to back it up.
Amazing, As is the painting in the first link, a must see. Betty