He's pretty clearly a fairly right-wing evangelical, based on the theological things you've mentioned. The wounds of Christ as holy is a long-running thing-- look how many saints manifested stigmata-- but the evangelicals can be fairly obsessed about them, and I'm pretty sure it's an evangelical idea that every sin anyone commits on earth becomes an addition to those wounds.
Sadly, there is indeed an art-is-evil thing in that sort of denomination. The clearest description of it I've seen is in Craig Thompson's autobiographical graphic novel Blankets, where the young Craig is being told about Heaven in Sunday school. He asks whether he will be able to paint in Heaven, because painting and drawing are the things he really enjoys. The teacher tells him that the only purpose of drawings and paintings is to glorify and praise God and to try to show reflections of God's perfection in an imperfect world, and since Heaven is the perfect world and the Bible says that everyone there glorifies God through singing, he will have neither the ability nor the desire to paint. Craig becomes very upset by this and she tells him that his desire to make art is a vanity and a sin, because if art is not a reflection of the glory of God, then it's trying to improve on God's creation, which is impossible vanity and also evil. Then for about the next ten years everyone watches him all the time to see whether he's drawing ungodly things, and when he goes to art school he has to partially break off with his family.
So Satan as a painter sounds plausible for that sort of thinking.
I don't know where they got the idea that trying to create things oneself is evil; I've never heard the citation and it runs directly contrary to several theologians and apologists I've always thought that sort of sect paid attention to.
In other news, the excerpts you've included from this book are so mind-meltingly horrible that my brain refuses to process their existence. Congratulations: you've found a book so bad I don't want to read it just to laugh.
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Sadly, there is indeed an art-is-evil thing in that sort of denomination. The clearest description of it I've seen is in Craig Thompson's autobiographical graphic novel Blankets, where the young Craig is being told about Heaven in Sunday school. He asks whether he will be able to paint in Heaven, because painting and drawing are the things he really enjoys. The teacher tells him that the only purpose of drawings and paintings is to glorify and praise God and to try to show reflections of God's perfection in an imperfect world, and since Heaven is the perfect world and the Bible says that everyone there glorifies God through singing, he will have neither the ability nor the desire to paint. Craig becomes very upset by this and she tells him that his desire to make art is a vanity and a sin, because if art is not a reflection of the glory of God, then it's trying to improve on God's creation, which is impossible vanity and also evil. Then for about the next ten years everyone watches him all the time to see whether he's drawing ungodly things, and when he goes to art school he has to partially break off with his family.
So Satan as a painter sounds plausible for that sort of thinking.
I don't know where they got the idea that trying to create things oneself is evil; I've never heard the citation and it runs directly contrary to several theologians and apologists I've always thought that sort of sect paid attention to.
In other news, the excerpts you've included from this book are so mind-meltingly horrible that my brain refuses to process their existence. Congratulations: you've found a book so bad I don't want to read it just to laugh.