Elon Musk and JD Vance have led the outrage over a “sacrilegious” graffiti art installation at Canterbury Cathedral.
The brightly coloured temporary display is designed to show the questions people have for God, during periods of doubt.
The art has received severe backlash, with the US Vice-President saying it has made a “beautiful historical building really ugly”.
Mr Musk called the decision “shameful”, with religious leaders saying Canterbury Cathedral no longer had “a sense of the sacred”.
The Rev Dr Gavin Ashenden, who served as chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II but converted to Roman Catholicism in 2019, said he is “shocked” by the move.
He said: “It belongs more to the architecture for a car park or a modern church. But in a cathedral? No.
“The notion of a cathedral is essentially to be the summit of the transcendent.
“If you want to do imminence and get down with the people, then you do that in a different building. It’s a category error… It’s about artistic congruence.”
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Part of the graffiti reads: ‘Where does love come from?’
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CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL
The graffiti has been compared to that seen in a car park
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CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL