Bite 8 by FP: Often we come to art with our minds made up as to what we will like or tolerate. The same holds true about spirituality. This art invites you to consider these biases as ‘bugs’ to the system.

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Bite 8 by NN: The life of Jesus of Nazareth amongst the marginalised and dispossessed illustrates clearly the set of collectables belonging to God. Compassion is the mysterious twist which recycles shattered human beings thrown onto the rubbish dump by formalised religion. Moralism is one ‘bug’ in this system since it lays the foundation for prejudice against those who are different, breeds religious intolerance and divides humanity into those who are ‘right’ and those who are ‘wrong’. Religious dialogue, like political dialogue, can be dominated by these concerns about who is ‘right’ and who is ‘’wrong’. In such a linguistic context, the search for truth becomes an illusion because the main concern is not for truth; rather, the dialogue aims to establish who has the ‘right’ truth and who has the ‘wrong’ truth. Eventually this becomes an issue of verbal power over someone rather than a mutual concern for truth. Sometimes religious wars are conducted in order to settle the argument, but they never succeed in doing so.