Comments on: Sentimentality And Emotional Death http://tritonelife.com/2008/04/03/sentimentality-and-emotional-death/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:25:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Louis G. http://tritonelife.com/2008/04/03/sentimentality-and-emotional-death/#comment-1018 Sun, 29 May 2011 20:42:41 +0000 http://mraley.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-1018 Aww, I liked the Angel looking over the children on the bridge picture. It shows how life is like a bridge about to break under us, yet even if it does break we still have the divine presence around us. That’s what I took from the picture when I was 7 though.

]]> By: mraley http://tritonelife.com/2008/04/03/sentimentality-and-emotional-death/#comment-78 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:13:18 +0000 http://mraley.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-78 Dennis, I hope your recovery accelerates! I’m sure it’s not the first time sentimentality frightened small children.

Thanks for the encouragement, Josh!

]]> By: Josh http://tritonelife.com/2008/04/03/sentimentality-and-emotional-death/#comment-77 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:40:28 +0000 http://mraley.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-77 Excellelent post! I especially appreciated your analysis of religious sentimentalist art and the apt (and hilarious) example you provided.

]]> By: Dennis http://tritonelife.com/2008/04/03/sentimentality-and-emotional-death/#comment-76 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:36:34 +0000 http://mraley.wordpress.com/?p=47#comment-76 Thanks, Matt! This is spot on. I’m still recovering from the emotional scars of sleeping under a picture like the one above during my early childhood, except it was the Victorian illustration of two little kids crossing a rickety bridge over a gorge with a gleaming angel hovering over them. The angel scared me to the point of cowering under the covers to escape his-her flaming gaze. Not surprisingly, it never made me any happier or holier. I suspect most evangelical “art,” while less scary, has much the same effect.

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