Nice try but the Ark of the Covenant is not about art...
You will turn on your car radio only to hear of some new school shooting, and you won’t even be sure if this is the eighth or ninth such massacre in as many months. You will, however, be able to form a mental image of the alleged perpetrators, for you have seen the look and the fashions on your own block and maybe even within your own families: the chopped, colored hair, the mutilations, the tattoos, the rings in the nostrils and eyebrows, the baggy clothes, the backward baseball caps, the surly looks and the sullen grunts. You’ve even heard their music — God have mercy on us; we’ve all heard their music.
Not about people eh??? If they don't fit your perception of a 'beautiful people', they will kill you and your family...Evil uglies...
Unless of course, your own daughter brings one home, parks his pentagram-tattooed butt on your sofa, and informs you he's about to become your son-in-law.
Then all bets are off, right dude?
Can you say "hypocrite"?
Give it up. You have a problem with anything Catholic.
For the record, it needs to be stated that the author here is not referring to those whom the world despises as ugly, or not beautiful. Those whom circumstance, genetics or accident has left bereft of what the world considers "beauty". The old, the handicapped, the deformed. That is a completely different issue.
However, it is certain that there are those who deliberately set out to make themselves repulsive to others and this is a different kettle of fish entirely. It's an "in your face" statement, a flip of the middle finger to respectable, sober people. A statement that they reject Christian values of decency. Hence the clothes with the vulgar messages, the offensive language, the studs, the occult symbols etc, etc. It is this ugliness to which the author refers. Ugliness which is calculated, contrived, orchestrated and a gesture of contempt.
But you knew that anyway, right?
You were just looking for a weapon du jour to trash something Catholic.
Iscool, Pyro probably should have used the example of the three chapters of God’s detailed instructions on how to put together the Tabernacle (Exodus 25, 26, and 27), which most certainly is about art and architecture. God told Moses to use gold, silver, brass, violet, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, rams’ skins dyed red and violet, setim wood, oil for lights, spices for ointment and incense, onyx and other precious stones. He told Moses how to make the ark, the rings, the bars, the two cherubim for the top, the table, the dishes, bowls, censers, cups, the candlesticks, lamps, and snuffers; then the dimensions, the materials, and how each should be decorated. Then God gave Moses detailed instructions on how to make the tabernacle itself - the dimensions, fabrics, and decorations for the curtains and veils - even down to the smallest details, such as that each curtain should have fifty loops on both sides, with each loop set next to the other (Ex. 26:5). If God didn’t care about these details, then why did He go to the trouble of telling Moses, and then expecting that it would be done properly?
To say that God doesn’t care if things are beautiful or not flies in the face of evidence to the contrary, straight from Holy Scripture.