Go to this link to read more than you care to know about Greco's painting and the alleged bible story incident...It is an absurd painting...but was taken so very seriously by Earlier Catholics...it seems it gave them license to create reform and to clean house, thier own house.
http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/2784/christ-driving-the-money-changers-from-the-temple/tab/comments
Excerpt:
THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT
Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple is based on an incident narrated in all four gospels of the New Testament: Matthew 21:12-15; Mark 11:15-17; Luke 19:45; John 2:13-16. According to the account by St. John, Jesus entered Jerusalem on a Sunday and the next day went to the Temple. "In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers at their business. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the doves, 'Take these things away; you shall not make my Father's house a house of trade.'" This is an unusual episode, for it is the only time in his recorded lifetime that Christ resorted to physical punishment.
Notes:
Strong Art Talk meeting with B and M and N on Monday night. I'm very impressed with the level of discussion from M and B. Progress is expected.
Faux Conference on Tuesday was on Non-Theism and Quakers. It almost was interesting. Wikipedia has a good bit "more better" info. But the event gave me a chance to talk about storylessness for the first time, and how it relates to the silent meeting process for me.
And John Haught has written a book to refute the works discussed last night:
God and the New Atheism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, December 2007, Westminster John Knox Press, ISBN 978-0664233044
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