viewerfromnihil
Vein-Marbled Tower
I saw so much suffering in the baroque sculptures of jesus and saints the other day. Sometimes Catholicism seems like a weird bdsm cult. Even the faces made me think those people must have had a wildly different mindset.
If you read the journals of certain medieval believers, specifically women who would spend their life starving themselves, intentionally wearing clothes that would irritate their skin, babbling about visions from god (I can't recall the specific term for them at the moment), there's an unmistakable eroticism in the way they go about their ascetics, sometimes even calling Jesus their only man who can be inside of them. The stuff is wack.