I saw these posters online and thought they provoked many thoughts and ideas. However, I find these sorts of statements, though provocative, to be far too simplistic. I have no issue with the center poster - it is beautiful to me...the outer images however make me ask a few deeper questions.
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These two images obviously are using the extreme to teach a point. They are using a form of visual hyperbole. Yet this is the problem when taken in a very wooden fashion. In other words, if we must examine what we mean by "love" or we can stoop into mere sentimentalism.
A few quick questions:
One of the artists who designed this poster wrote the following:
Before we turn off the outrage and anger in our consciences, let me encourage the designer. The swastika should not make us feel and think nice thoughts. It ought to make us angry for what it stood for. There is a righteous anger throughout the Old and New Testaments and exhibited in the very life of Jesus. To feel good about swastikas is a different kind of wickedness - that of a seared conscience. It may disguise itself in sentimentalism, but it is not love.
May God give us love for our enemies and righteous anger in the face of evil. The cross of Christ is actually the perfect union of fierce wrath and justice as well as mercy, grace and love. It is where righteousness and justice kiss - let us not forget to come to God in repentance and marvel at grace. But the evil in our own hearts and all around us should not be welcomed with a fuzzy embrace.