![The Pieta](https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/sites/186/2015/05/1200px-Michelangelos_Pieta_5450_cut_out_black-300x300.jpg)
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You may already have seen the statue above and regretted its existence.
I know, I know.
If only the sculptor hadn’t been ruined by religion — even his name is religious! — he might have amounted to something. Maybe he could have been a stone mason. Or a fishmonger.