Nipple Jesus

I personally thought the Nipple Jesus article was very interesting.  I would have a similar reaction to the picture as Nick would, at first thinking it was a beautiful picture of Jesus  then realizing it was made entirely up of nipples, I would be offended.  However, that same question, "Why" would drive me mad.  I would need to figure out why it is made up of breasts, and not pictures of, say, more appropriate things?  The answer the artist gave though made me laugh, and I do agree with what she said, that art is creating something to get a response.  Very similar to the other artist we covered in class, I do not remember what his name is, but he made all of the pictures of the beautiful birds attacking each other.
Although this article may have changed my view on some pieces of art, I feel that even though her intentions were pretty funny, the picture of Jesus suffering on the cross is a very spiritual and important symbol to many, including myself.  Seeing someone take something that important to you, disgracing it with profanity, then videotaping responses and calling it intolerant is a dick move to say it politely.  She was taking a worldwide symbol of religion to over 1 billion people, and making it up of profanity.  Any of those one billion would immediately be offended once realizing.  I wouldn't go as far to call them intolerant if they are a religious person.  In my eyes, it would be like making an american flag out of pictures of catastrophic acts of terror in american history, pictures of soldiers killed in combat, and or pictures of crime, prisons, etc.