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I keep thinking they are Christian books, since they are sold in Christian bookstores, but so far, despite having read several of them, they are so minimally Christian, if at all, they I don't know why they would be called such.They are just thrillers, that's it--and not very good ones at that.

Tacky drug-addled paintings by Thomas Kinkade Senior Pastor, Solid Rock Church, DroghedaNational Overseer, Church of God, IrelandExecutive Director, Evangelical Alliance Irelandhttp://eaiseanchai.wordpress.com/

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Tacky drug-addled paintings by Thomas Kinkade? LOL! I couldn't agree more. Thomas Kinkade is just awful junk. Take one art appreciation class in college and if you have any capacity to actually appreciate art you'll see just how bad this junk is, not to mention the fact that his marketing of limited editions amounts to outright lies exploiting the masses of uneducated. Sad how the Christian bookstores have participated in this rip off.

It's not surprising that the liberal intelligentsia class find a artist that uses Americana and Christian themes in his paintings to be lesser than themselves.What's amazing is the not-so intellientsia of Acts - take the shot at the same artist - pointing out his personal shortcomings or parroting the liberal artists class and saying I am so glad we are so much better that that poor rube and his stylings.Even more amazing that this drug addled hireling - that can't paint better than JD with one art appreciation class under his belt made MILLIONS of dollars - and provided an artistic creation in many American homes with spiritual and religious expressions mixed in.In 2002 - Kinkade donated 2 of his paintings to the Salvation Army to help with the relief efforts of the 9/11 Muslim terrorism attacks...more than 2 million dollars was raised through that effort. Yes - Kinkade deserves to be mocked and ridiculed by those that are better then he.By the way - if these two are correct, Kinkade should get an honorary doctorate in Marketing from Harvard...how else to explain getting his inferior drug addled works to be so popular.

That I can agree with

I don't think we're going to get far talking about art if we start mixing politics in and viewing everything through a left/right or liberal/conservative lens. Politics and art appreciation rarely go together. Which is why both the Nazis and the Communists (opposite extremes of the left/right axis) both spent their time persecuting talented artists while promoting horrendous monstrosities that posed as art.My problem with Kinkade is not his so-called 'Christian themes'. I love art that takes a much more robust and biblical approach to Christianity than a picture of a cart outside a wooden church. That's why I get frustrated when Christian bookstores are cluttered with such low-level stuff when they could be introducing people to classics like Caravaggio's Sacrifice of Isaac.

Nick,Thanks for he response? Was it proper to call Kinkade drug addled?I don't think that was pertinent to his successful years

Now, if you had said this in the first place...

Now, if you had said this in the first place...Calling his work kitsch or syrupy or sentimental is one thing. I just thought it was a cheap shot to call it drug-addled. Agreed. Words mean something