Negativland's 1987 song "Christianity is Stupid" was influential for me in high school. The overt anti-Jesus message wasn't
really the point, but rather the ridiculing and reuse of the blatant
propaganda chant "Christianity is stupid / Communism is good".
Now the song has a music video of sorts, The Mashin of the
Christ. Just like Negativland made their mark doing sound collage,
the Mashin is a video collage of Christ and Communist footage from a
variety of
movies. It's quite clever and well done, and more than a bit
disturbing. Polemic image reuse.
Distribution is via BitTorrent
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