In all his glory: Michelangelo's naked Christ comes to Britain
Michelangelo dared to sculpt Jesus naked, but for centuries the church covered him up with a bizarre metal veil. Now the National Gallery is revealing all.
I have seen Jesus Christ’s penis at last. Michelangelo’s statue The Risen Christ stands in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome. This masterpiece of his middle years – finished in 1521, when he was 46 – is more startling in some ways than his youthful David. After all, it is one thing to portray a young warlike hero naked, in the ancient Greek style, as the young Michelangelo did when he carved David. It is quite another thing to make a stark-naked statue of Jesus to go in a church.
Unfortunately, if you visit this statue in Rome, you won’t quite see everything. After Michelangelo’s death, it was given a bizarre baroque metal veil to cover the cock and balls he’d carved. This prudish accessory is still in place. Michelangelo’s belief in the total exposure of Christ’s humanity is still too modern for the 21st-century church.
The best thing about Mike, is that HE is in so much disagreement with our mother, Ruth Anne (Meyer) Kenan of Raleigh, that he RARELY calls Mom -- while I speak with Mom just about every three days.
And we ended up talking about all the pets we had mid-1950s - mid-1960s, including a female mutt my parents named after the SEX GODDESS Gina Lollobrigida (and we such DEVOUT ROMAN CATHOLICS), who had NINE PUPPIES on Christmas Eve.
And then, as we learned how to pull a pup off so the "runt" could get fed too, a few days later, Mom had a miscarriage in the middle of the night, and we awoke to a neighbor napping on our sofa, who explained that Dad took Mom to the hospital -- although she seemed perfectly fine, she needed to be checked out -- and soon Mom and Dad were back, Mom fine.
They told me that the fetus was so small, you could not tell its sex -- maybe an inch long -- and they BAPTIZED IT. Catholics believe ANYONE with some plain water -- or even a Coca-Cola -- can use it with the magic words and the soul goes straight to HEAVEN -- instead of LIMBO, which was not quite as good.
And while it is common for women to get DEPRESSED after a miscarriage, Mom got pregnant with my youngest sister, Julie (who was named after Dad's Grandmother who had been the Oldest Confederate Widow of North Carolina -- see halfway down here: https://theweathercontinues.blogspot.com/2021/01/nancy-sinatra-nancy-reagan-cicely-tyson.html), and that picked Mom's spirits RIGHT BACK UP!!!
What was so different back then, was that there were NO LEGAL COMPLICATIONS -- they buried the fetus in the garden, and NO DEATH CERTIFICATES or REQUIRED MORTUARY PREP or reporting for investigation into possible MURDER CHARGES as some REPUBLICAN/CHRISTIAN states later required.
Anyway, Mike and I spoke for about a half hour, and he STILL can barely speak with our NAZI/CATHOLIC/TRUMP-LOVING mother.
>>> THREE INTERESTING NEWS STORIES FROM WILMINGTON, NC -- TODAY. PENDER COUNTY IS NEXT-DOOR TO US:
Sonny was a Colombian National whose parents were smuggling him into the USA when he was only a couple of years old, when they got separated, and the DRUG MAFIA in the USA adopted him, and raised him to be a BUTCHER. Sonny told me how he chopped up bodies all up and down the East Coast of the USA to make the bodies easier to dispose of.
He was caught, and having no I.D. of any kind, gave US Authorities a FAKE NAME. He was CONVICTED and sentenced to 25 years in US MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONS, but given favored treatment and after only ELEVEN YEARS was released by the CIA to Mexico to KILL to protect US HARD-DRUG TRAFFICKING. He also told me he had been one of the LEADERS of the Son Kings Colombian Mafia (like Thomas Elliot Keith's boyfriend, Arturo Noguera, whose family lived in the Smoke Rise section of Stone Mountain, GA -- when I lived there):
https://theweathercontinues.blogspot.com/2018/10/top-press-in-europe-just-contacted-me.html
Sonny told me how the Son Kings (now just called the "Kings"), had taken over the New York City Police Department and many other Police Departments on the East Coast. Sonny HELPED ME get back to the USA in 2010 after my mother sent me about $1,200.00 to pay for the trip. Sonny ALSO used to have long discussions with Mom on how to CONTROL ME -- HA!!!
When I RETURNED in 2012 for my SECOND period of Political Exile, Sonny got so pissed at me he punched me hard in the face, cutting it, and soon was in Mexican Jail for slicing a man's head with a MACHETE -- the guy NEARLY DYING, but survived. Sonny was CONVICTED and given EIGHT YEARS IN PRISON, but the CIA got him out after only ONE YEAR.
Later, I learned that he was connected to Jennifer McCracken who lived two doors from me in Kenan-built Carolina Apartments, summer of 2015 -- my Marijuana supplier who supplied EVERY OTHER DRUG to others and worked with her Mormon Church who gave her orders via her mother, and her brother whom she said was "High in the CIA" as well as on Sheriff Ed McMahon's Deputies -- PROTECTING the Wilmington, NC Christian Drug Mafia (that my parents had set up in the 1980s and 1990s with John Ehrlichman and the Catholic Church).
Jenny told me she had gotten her BROTHER to have Google CANCEL my three Gmail accounts -- so you KNOW he was TOP CIA!!!
This is just a REMINDER that my Kenan Family that controls Hard Drug Trafficking and White Supremacy in the USA -- now with the Christian Churches and the Bush, Cheney, Clinton, and Obama Families, not only caused the Wilmington 1898 Coup d'Etat -- but ALSO was behind the VIOLENCE and Wilmington 10 incident -- but with Donald Trump and Christian Republicans (and Christian Democrats -- many of them) -- the 2021 ATTEMPTED COUP D'ETAT that the Kenans with Trump BASED on the successful Coup in 1898.
Pam Sander, Wilmington Star News
Marsha Brown
Regional Director, Human Resources
Marsha.Brown@jdnews.com
John McElwee
Controller
john.mcelwee@starnewsonline.com
Cc: Star News Reporters Past and Present:
Kevin Maurer: kevin.maurer@gmail.com
Ben Steelman: peacebesteelman@gmail.com
Scott Nunn: scott@localdailymedia.com
Hunter Ingram: hunter.ingram@starnewsonline.com
Jonathan Haynes: jhaynes@starnewsonline.com
FBI Director Christopher A. Wray
c/o Charlotte, NC Office
outreachcharlotte@fbi.gov
>>> AT THIS EXACT POINT, I GOT THE OLD "WINDOWS BLUE-SCREEN OF DEATH" for only the SECOND TIME since running Windows 10 these many years now. Windows spent 90 seconds collecting data to send to Microsoft about it -- and then RE-STARTED ITSELF.
Seems I hit a NERVE with the Christian CIA or Vladimir Putin, no???
That is WHY I went back and ADDED the FBI to my List to send this to FIRST -- via my ALT email that the Star News MIGHT NOT BLOCK -- and I can REPORT RESULTS of that -- BEFORE I email this out to my five lists of Political Contacts.
>>> LATER: This email went to ALL RECIPIENTS LISTED with NO ONE BLOCKING IT!!!
This was my Letter received by the State Department, FBI, and CIA less than a week ago:
https://theweathercontinues.blogspot.com/2021/01/letter-to-sect-of-state-antony-j.html
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February 1, 2021
Dear Ms. Sander et al:
In response to this: https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2021/01/31/starnews-offer-digital-content-subscribers-only/4299403001/
Quite frankly, I had so much TROUBLE from doing research and then FIGHTING HACKERS, that I don't even feel like writing you now. YOUR paper and its Gannett and other associated Press -- as well as WECT-TV6 -- are the ONLY MEDIA in Wilmington -- or ELSEWHERE -- who have BLOCKED all of my emails. I am hoping this one gets through via my alt email address.
I will now just remind you of TWO TRAITOROUS THINGS about the Wilmington Star News -- both under your management at the time.
When I was at the 2012 Azalea Festival, a representative of the New York Times -- that soon sold your paper -- found me to tell me that they had just BOUGHT OUT Carlos Salim "Slim" Helu of Mexico -- who had controlled BOTH PAPERS through some stock ownership -- but MOSTLY had bought up the NYTimes's DEBT.
Carlos Slim used the papers to HIDE HIS DRUG TRAFFICKING in Wilmington, NC, primarily. But the sale was NOT announced to the Press until a month later when the check cleared.
Well, ALL BEST to you -- HA!!!
Scott D. Kenan
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