\u201cThe art made by Christians today is not only not beautiful, but tends to be among the ugliest art that mankind is producing,\u201d screenwriter and professor Barbara Nicolosi-Harrington said during her talk to the students and faculty of Christendom College on May 2<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I think it\u2019s the \u201cLittle Drummer Boy\u201d effect. Art that sucks (Music=pa rum pa pum pum) is thought to be humble. Art that\u2019s good is fancy pants aesthetics that those damn bi-coastal Blue Staters like. So Christians make sucky art and pride themselves on their humility. Til \u201csuck\u201d is decoupled from \u201chumble\u201d the problem will continue.<\/p>\n
I think the trick is to get Christians to look beyond the story of the Widow\u2019s Mite and remember the remark of David that \u201cI will not offer a sacrifice that costs me nothing.\u201d The widow put two small coins into the treasury because it was all she had. She gave her all. Lots of Christians think the moral is \u201cPut in two cents of effort and you are humble.\u201d Nope. If you put in two cents when you have $2000 to give you are not humble. You\u2019re just lazy and cheap. Same with the arts. Crappy art when we can do better is not humble, it\u2019s just crappy.<\/p>\n