Why so much bad religious art, architecture, music, ceremony and whatnot? Iconoclasm has always rested on theological error, and a Florentine scholar tells us that the same is true today: The New Iconoclasts Have Theology Degrees. The problem the article points to, in its Italian philosophical way, is the modern view that reduces the world to an odd mixture of atoms in space on the one hand and human feelings on the other. That view tells us that fact and value—reality and meaning—can have no real connection, and so makes nonsense of the Incarnation and the Real Presence. It also causes very serious problems for religious art—in the long run, for all art—because art, like fundamental Christian doctrine, joins meaning and being. The result of their current separation is “[p]sychobabble, pauperism, the craze for Russian icons and a horror for the Baroque.” Art today can be about feelings, it can deny itself and take refuge in absolute austerity, the visual correlate to a purely negative theology, or it can run off into the (misunderstood) primitive and exotic. What it cannot do is accept visible glory as a true expression of divine glory.