Christians Should Not React to the Desecration of Christian Art and Symbols

I have a deep appreciation for most Christian art and symbolism; however, I do not allow this appreciation to cloud my understanding that all Christian art and symbolism are exteriorized objects— secondary “realities” that may represent, reveal, or reflect primary reality yet are not primary reality in and of themselves. 

A significant part of the spiritual morass we find ourselves in stems from confusing secondary representations of reality with primary reality. We are slaves of symbolized reality. We live our lives imprisoned in this secondary unreal reality. 

Society itself is a symbol and not a primary reality. The System controls virtually all symbols, and it endeavors to convince us that its symbol society is the primary reality. When the System desecrates Christian art and symbolism via the mass media, it trashes the exteriorized objects of Christianity, nothing more. 

The primary reality of Christianity is immune to such degradations. Yet, Christians react to the System’s profane perversions of Christian art and symbols as direct attacks against the primary reality of Christianity. 

The System accomplishes two goals here. One, it keeps Christians locked in secondary thinking when they should be striving for primary thinking. Two, it keeps Christians in a reactive state of being when they should aim for a creative state of being. 
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The individual Christian can do nothing to stop the System’s desecration of Christian art and symbolism; however, he can attain inward freedom and creativity from the System’s sacrilege by recognizing the core spiritual motivations behind the glaring inversion and irreverence.