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"  Brooklyn-based artist Hannah Kunkle exhibited a series of collage portraits at a gallery show in New York last week. Titled &amp;quot;The Passion of Kim Kardashian,&amp;quot; her exhibit featured Kim styled as all your favorite religious icons, deities, and assorted other strong women of yore \u2014 everyone from the Virgin Mary to Shiva, and Joan of Arc to a nun. Kunkle previously showcased her work for Vice magazine; here&amp;#039;s a couple more examples:        See more Kardashian kollages still at Vice.com, or via Kunkle&amp;#039;s wonderful Tumblr feed. She explains herself as &amp;quot;strangely fascinated&amp;quot; by the Kardashians and describes Kim as &amp;quot;almost a patron saint of pop culture.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s a solid metaphor, don&amp;#039;t try and deny it. Following her show, The New York Daily News spoke with religious leaders from across New York City. Their incensed/bemused reactions were all great fun. Pastor Reggie Stutzman, of the &amp;quot;R-Rated&amp;quot; Real Life Church in the Bronx (the &amp;quot;R&amp;quot; in R-Rated is for &amp;quot;relationship,&amp;quot; as in having one with Jesus), said the exhibition constituted &amp;quot;idol worship,&amp;quot; and labeled it as &amp;quot;deplorable, sacrilegious, irrelevant, and disrespectful,&amp;quot; while Catholic priest Father Michael Perry said Kunkle&amp;#039;s work was &amp;quot;dumb and stupid.&amp;quot; (He did say her photos were nicely laid out though, so it&amp;#039;s not all bad.) Dr. Uma Mysorekar, of a Hindu Temple in Queens, said she was &amp;quot;certainly not happy,&amp;quot; and seminarian John Gribowich said he basically just was confused by it all. Gribowich also noted that he &amp;quot;[didn&amp;#039;t] walk away [from the exhibition] thinking Kim Kardashian is a goddess,&amp;quot; though he then added that he&amp;#039;s always preferred Khlo\u00E9 anyway. In turn, Kunkle said all the angry feedback was &amp;quot;pretty hilarious.&amp;quot; Follow Alex on  Twitter. Photo credit: courtesy of Hannah Kunkle; via Vice "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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