Hitler Prays, Jesus Gets Thrashed as Paris Surveys Faith in Art - by Jorg von Uthmann
President Nicolas Sarkozy shocked his secular compatriots in December when he assured Pope Benedict XVI that the Christian faith was deeply rooted in French society. The Pompidou Center in Paris seems to have anticipated the debate sparked by Sarkozy's comments. The exhibition ``Traces du Sacre'' (``Traces of the Sacred'') could not be more timely. Now that Nietzsche has pronounced God dead, curators ask, and that the 20th century has embraced atheism, materialism and hedonism, what is left of the sacred in art?
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