Enough death and destruction

DARK MOFO

YES, Dark Mofo is dark. It is naive for Mona to suggest that the giant upside down crucifixes they have erected in the centre of Hobart are in homage of St Peter. I was at the waterfront on Wednesday when the red crosses were being erected and spoke to Dark Mofo representatives who told me it was a symbol of St Peter. In our culture the symbolism more has to do with the statement on Dark Mofo’s Facebook page: “Lucifer I summon you to my black mass”. Mona can try to spin the meaning but inverting the primary symbol of Christianity speaks volumes. It is offensive to some people whose primary goal it is to love one another as they have been loved. But Lucifer … really? Isn’t there enough death and destruction in the world? can continue to be highly effective, lucrative and enjoyable, but it needs to be without dishonouring Jesus and the cross, and without being at the cost of moral and social decency.

Blessing of St Peter

THE inverted Dark Mofo crosses are a nostalgic reminder of my primary school years at St Peter’s School in Hobart. Badges displaying these upside-down red crosses were sewn onto our caps which we, as students, wore with some pride. We were told that St Peter asked his executioners to crucify him upside down because he felt he was unworthy to be crucified in the same manner as the Master. St Peter is sure to ask God’s blessing on the organisers and on all who attend an event that brings much pleasure (and warmth) to so many people.

Reverse crosses

SURELY the best response to Dark Mofo’s inverted, illuminated crosses would be for Hobart’s churches to erect their own right-way-up ones?

Never cool

WHILE the Dark Mofo crew might think the upside down red crucifixes scattered around town are cool and all, perhaps they could show some courage and denigrate another religion. Perhaps Islam? Don’t A new way to have your say themercury.com.au readers have a new way to have their say. It’s free to use, just register and have your say. For more details and to register, visit the website. have the guts? Thought so. This imagery is unquestionably an affront to a religion and the good folks at Dark Mofo who have bought a lot cool stuff to our fair city should rethink this one, besides, I don’t care who you are, Satanist imagery was never cool.

Traffic gods

CORRESPONDENCE about Mike Parr’s artwork for Dark Mofo seems to have missed the point. Since taking over the responsibility for traffic flow on Macquarie and Davey streets, the State Government has surely teamed up with Mona to offer a human sacrifice in the hope of appeasing the traffic gods.

Pondering its worth

READER Michael Casey’s apparent amazement of the Dark Mofo organisers working together with Hobart City Council to dig a big hole in Macquarie St, bury a container with a chap inside and then re trace their actions and reverse the whole procedure, and all within three days, in my opinion does indeed have validity (Letters, May 31). Whilst I also praise David Walsh (and have many times in the past using this forum) for his many and various leftof-centre and outside-the-square endeavours, I too also ponder the worth and temerity of this installation. I also wonder if all this effort is really commensurate with any perceived and/or possible gain?

A library is a library

A SUM of $250,000 to revert our libraries to their rightful name. Thank you Liberals. Can the Labor Party give an assurance they will not, in a fit of pique, rename them LINCs again. A library is a library is a library.

Travelling north

IT’S simple Mick, the crowd numbers show southerners will travel to York Park but northerners will not travel to Bellerive to watch AFL.

Airbnb cap

WILL Mr Hodgman follow the lead of his Liberal Government counterpart in NSW and impose 180-night cap on Airbnb properties in Tasmania?

Fish and chip state

SHOULD the woodchip and fishing industries both become successful, Tasmania could become known as Australia’s Fish and Chip state. Anyone concerned about the impact that kind of diet might have on the health of Tasmanians over the long term can rest assured fish and chips won’t be the state’s only staples. There’ll be a healthy dose of greens to go right along with them. Of that you can be certain.