Thu Feb 16, 2023 – 8:16 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) has covered with curtains a painting depicting Jesus Christ overlooking seamen adrift in a lifeboat after an anti-Christian activist demanded that the painting be removed.
The 1944 painting titled “Christ on the Water,” which portrays seamen adrift “presumably after being torpedoed in the Indian Ocean during World War II,” according to the USMMA, is hung in a conference room of the Academy’s main administration building, a spokesperson for the Maritime Administration (MARAD) told Fox News Digital.
Military Religious Freedom Foundation founder Mikey Weinstein, who has essentially made it his life’s mission to remove all traces of Christianity and faith in God from the military, submitted a complaint to USSMA Superintendent Vice Admiral Joanna Nunan, demanding that she “expeditiously remove a massive, sectarian painting illustrating the supremacy of Jesus Christ” from Wiley Hall.
Weinstein said his complaint represents 18 academy midshipmen, faculty, and graduates, who he said “quite correctly believe that the display of the ‘Jesus painting’ is totally violative of the clear time, place and manner requirements of the No Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.”
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