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Isn't it a little silly that the same sort of people who bitch about school prayer and public-school vouchers spent on religious education are ready to lay down their lives to protect the government's right to subsidize art that desecrates religious figures in the most sophomoric way imaginable?
Not only does de Hooch play with two ways--secular and sacred--of "educating virgins," but he deliberately desecrates, with bits of a smashed pipe and rolling paper, that immaculate expanse of floor.