Comments on: Strange Geographies: Salvation Mountain

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:55:09 +0000

Ray wrote “You seem like a very hateful person or just dislike art to the extent you’ll put down 25 years of hard work by a wonderful man who’s advocating Christianity. You my friend are a major A-Hole!”

I am very hateful towards religion because of what it stands for…ignorance. I think art is great, but this is not art. Its the psychotic ranting and ravings of a lunatic who believes that some magical man in the sky approves of what he is doing. If I went out and ruined a beautiful landscape by painting it all sorts of ridiculous colors and it didn’t have anything to do with Jesus or religion, then I’d be thought of as crazy….so explain to me why he shouldn’t be.
Not to mention he is breaking his own commandments : “You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth” He probably worked on this on a Sunday as well…hypocrite.

By: Louis Wu

Louis Wu — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:55:07 +0000

I’m an atheist, but I can’t help but admire that kind of faith and dedication.

By: Bakedpotatoes

Bakedpotatoes — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:28:43 +0000

Some people are never happy. I think it’s great that whomever did this loved god so much that they decided to dedicate something to him. Also, that the dedication wasn’t “I’m going to be an arsehole and make everyone do what I want and use god as an excuse”.

This work is beautiful, what else is someone to use to dedicate to god, but what god gave us? Silly.

By: Maritas

Maritas — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:37:16 +0000

I am not even Christian and think that’s amazing.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:41:39 +0000

“About 10 years ago, Imperial County started threatening Leonard. He built Salvation Mountain on public land and had no legal claim to it, and the county’s worry — officially, at least — was that all that lead paint he had used was seeping into the ground and poisoning the water supply. But after extensive tests, experts concluded that the water supply was fine, and to protect Salvation Mountain from wrecking balls and bulldozers on a more permanent basis, California senator Barbara Boxer had the Mountain declared a national treasure” @Bill Siderski. It’s no worse than the cumulative pollution you’ve let off by driving your car every day. SHUT UP!

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:36:01 +0000

This is absolutely mind blowing. Such an amazing work of folk art shouldn’t be looked at as “psychotic”. Mike who posted on 2-3-2010, you have no appreciation for art if you look at it as “ruining a beautiful landscape”. There’s plenty more landscapes around the Mojave Desert. You seem like a very hateful person or just dislike art to the extent you’ll put down 25 years of hard work by a wonderful man who’s advocating Christianity. You my friend are a major A-Hole!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:18:08 +0000

Wow, what a phycho. Nice way to ruin a beautiful landscape. This is what people who believe in fairy tales and myths do….they ruin things for the rest of us.

By: Bill Siderski

Bill Siderski — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:28:42 +0000

I’m with Valerie. Sure, the paint is vivid. But to paint all over public lands? How is this not graffiti?

Add to that the church/state conflict, and this seems a bad idea. He may not have polluted the groundwater with lead, but 100,000 gallons of paint aren’t benign.

By: kate

kate — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:22:22 +0000

To Amanda: It seems to me that he is helping people who need it. He’s created a place that inspires love and offers hope. I’m sure there are some that would disagree, but sometimes – I think – that’s the biggest help of all.

By: Bakedpotatoes

Bakedpotatoes — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:08:52 +0000

Beautiful devotion. THAT, I respect.
On a side note, my reCAPTCHA words below for security are appropriate: “BE Loving”