A massive painting of Jesus on display in the US Merchant Marine Academy has been covered by a curtain after objections that a sectarian symbol should not hang in a room used for mandatory activities.

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, hid a large painting of Jesus behind a curtain after the Military Religious Freedom Foundation complained about it.

(JTA) — A large painting of Jesus will be moved out of a room at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in New York, and mandatory events will not take place in its presence.

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Max Beckmann's 1917 painting "Christ and the Sinner" can be read as a call to speak and act as Jesus did: putting ourselves in the role of Jesus in these stories.

The painting, which shows a young and muscular Jesus in a loincloth, has critics – largely conservatives on social media – calling the image "offensive", "evil", and too "sexualised" for Holy ...

A large painting of Jesus will be moved out of a room at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in New York, and mandatory events will not take place in its presence.