by Matthew Cserhati, Joel Tay

Published: 27 August 2019 (GMT+10)

On 15 July, 2019, passers-by discovered that rainbow-colored paint adorned the heads of the statues of four figures of the Protestant Reformation. These statues represent John Calvin, Guillaume Farel, Théodore de Bèze and John Knox (figure 1) on the Reformation Wall in Geneva, Switzerland. Most likely, an LGBT group had vandalized the statues because of the rainbow coloring of the paint, but no-one yet has come forth to claim responsibility for the act. This is not the first time that the monument has been defaced. For example, in March, 2019, a feminist group sprayed graffiti across the monument, saying “Where are the women?”1 But this act of vandalization is not an isolated event—it is yet another case of a Christian monument being defaced as a symbolic token of the rejection of Christianity in modern culture.

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