Innsbruck Bishop Hermann Glettler has accused Gloria.tv of having “turned into a scandal” his scandalous “Jesus Clock” which he is currently displaying in the Spitalkirche in Innsbruck.
In a letter to critics of what Glettler calls an “art initiative” he accuses Gloria.tv of “accusatory and defamatory reporting” which according to him “triggered the outrage to a large extent.”
Glettler shows no self-criticism and no hindsight. Instead, he bewails that he had to face “very hurtful” statements and allegations.
Simultaneously he writes that his clock [allegedly] made “many more clearly aware of the meaning of the cross,” stressing that the clock doesn't involve the “slightest trace of blasphemy.”
Glettler only admits that “at first sight” his clock could “hurt religious feelings” but only in those who are “fixed” on a “conventional way of representing the cross.”
Attempting to stir up emotions, Glettler recounts that the “artist” found the decaying cross in a basement, preserved it “…More