Chicago artist portrays God and Adam as black women, is called 'a disgrace'

Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam.
(Image credit: Public Domain)

A Chicago artist is being called "a disgrace" for depicting God as a black woman. Harmonia Rosales' Creation of God shows a white-haired black woman reaching down from the clouds to touch the hand of a younger black ­woman — a variation on Michel­angelo's Creation of Adam. On Twitter, critics objected to the race of the deity, calling Rosales' work blasphemous and "disgusting."

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