Degraded Modern Man

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• Michelangelo: “God, Creation of Adam”. Sistine Chapel

If you believe that Man was created in the image of God, this Manichaean debauchery is a repulsive image. Man – so brilliantly depicted taking the flash of life from God in the Michelangelo masterpiece – has fallen, a slave to drugs, a wasted and useless flesh.This Adam later was called Everyman. This Adam has become minion to Lucifer.

There is no icon to redemption in this painting. Even though it is disguised as a lamp, there is an all-seeing eye icon. Every debauch, every stupidity, every ingestion of drug will be meticulously recorded. Eventually every Adam/Eve will have comeuppance and be judged. That may not be a happy day for everyone.

– Lawrance Jeppson