An Australian artist's work that shows a Star Wars robot hanging from a cross has outraged some churches.
The Melbourne Herald Sun reports that Crusci-fiction is part of an exhibit called False Idols by artist Jud Wimhurst which opens this month at a Melbourne gallery. Crusci-fiction is a room-sized installation with 25 replicas of C3PO nailed to crosses.
Wimhurst said his work is not intended as sacrilege.
We're talking about sacrilege and the fact that everything's for sale, he said.
But Monsignor Lee Tomlinson, the city's Roman Catholic vicar general, suggested the art trivializes the central symbol of Christianity.
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