Fighting for the Faith and the Holy Spirit

Posted on December 6, 2024 by The Town Crier Outlet
Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism by William Hogarth. 1762. One of his last great works of art, this explores the ever dangerous world of fundamentalist religion. Presiding from a great height a preacher-performer terrorizes his congregation with a pair of puppets representing the devil and a witch. The text beside him has opened to a page reading, “I speak as a fool.” Below, another minister thrusts an icon down the dress of an attractive girl seemingly in the throes of religious ecstasy. Hogarth continues the poignant comparison between religious and sexual excitement to the right of this couple by inventing a religious thermometer containing various emotional states such as, agony, lust, madness and suicide. At the thermometer’s base rests a diseased brain. –Art of the Print
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