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09/26/2007: "All middle eastern religions freak out over symbolism"

A SWEDISH artist unveiled a sculpture depicting Christ as a well-endowed dog, saying he wanted to stimulate debate about religion and freedom of expression in the wake of a row over cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.

However, within hours of the sculpture being installed on a roundabout in Skaanes Fagerhult, a town in the south of Sweden, it disappeared.

[ Religions based on symbolic realities don't take kindly to you screwing with those symbols. Pagans, and transcendental Christians, have no such hangup and think it's funny. ]

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22484495-5006003,00.html