La gaia religione
By: Louk Vreeswijk
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| Focal Length: | 28.2mm |
| ISO: | 400 |
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| Camera: | DSC-R1 |
If it hadn’t been the cause of so much misery and death through the ages, one would think when seeing these images, that religion is a joke. Not ‘die fröhliche Wissenschaft’ here, but ‘die fröhliche Religion’.
The unlikely collection of elements brought together in the image above is a true source of gaiety.
The same for the scene in this picture. The knock on the door – not heaven’s door – provokes the answer from inside: “Who’s there?” We can imagine the dialogue to continue like this:
“Guess who.”
“I have no idea. You tell me.”
“It’s me, Jesus, your saviour.”
“Don’t fool me! Jesus is hanging here on the cross right in front of me!”
La gaia religione. For whom? The smiles on the faces of these handmaids of Christ are not free and easy, but shy and furtive.
Nuns, priests and sex, … a source of cheerfulness to us, but to them?
Photos of the week: Stalls in the courtyard of the exposition of the sacred remains of St. Francis Xavier, Old Goa, India 2014
καιρός remembered 
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