Seriously?!

[mimi85]

I truly did LOL when the Witnesses left this. Guess they're going for the young white girl crowd or ? Sorry about the giant size - still getting the hang of things.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

1. LOL, the savior looks just like a hipster

Or an actor from one of those Cinemax b-movie porns that 16 year old boys watch.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. He looks sort of like Stephen Malkmus with a beard.

[AlbertCat]

3. My question is....

Why does he look like he came from a 70's rock band instead of Galilee?

[redqueen]

4. Short-haired Jesus?

That's a new one.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. JESUS DID NOT HAVE LONG HAIR! THAT'S A PERNICIOUS LIE!

http://rcg.org/articles/djhlh.html

[AlbertCat]

9. That's a new one.

Not really.

Here're some beardless Jesuses....some with long-ish hair, some with short...









here's a later one... Caravaggio... Jesus is on the right... with long hair.

[redqueen]

10. A new one as far as depictions in modern publications go, then.

Better?

[AlbertCat]

11. Better?

Yes!







Actually I didn't mean to get all picky. It's actually interesting how depictions of Jesus turn out.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. I don't think Jesus had any hair, at all.

To have hair, one needs a head. And a body.

And a physical, literal existence.

http://www.jesuspuzzle.humanists.net/

[AlbertCat]

16. I don't think Jesus had any hair, at all.

I agree... sorta. I think there is an historical Jesus (or "Jesuses&quot .... he's just not the one in the book....


Like the Mahabharata and the Iliad... it's based on... something.... that really happened.

[redqueen]

17. For me, Jesus had long hair, and Santa wears a red suit.

Leaving aside the debate as to whether Jesus existed, even mythical figures come to be perceived by different groups as having varying personality traits, physical characteristics, mannerisms, etc.

The physical existence of a thing is not necessary to recognize such characteristics (e.g. unicorns look like horses and have one horn).

[awoke_in_2003]

20. I like to picture Jesus...

in a tuxedo T-shirt. 'Cause it says like, I wanna be formal but I'm here to party too. I like to party, so I like my Jesus to party.

[awoke_in_2003]

21. I like to picture Jesus...

as a figure skater. He wears like a white outfit, and he does interpretive ice dances of my life's journey.

[dimbear]

5. Hitler sent JWs to the concentration camps. Why do they worship Aryan Jesus? n/t

[MineralMan]

6. Dude...gotta question?

Out with it, OK? I've got all the answers.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. So....do they have any good answers?

You know, to our questions? That could be fun for a few minutes ----then it would reek.

[charlie]

12. Joshua ben Bieber

"Come. Click my LIKE button and know that I AM your BFF."

[Iggo]

18. I was thinking Kenny ben Loggins, but yeah...

[deucemagnet]

13. Jesus is one knit hat and one long-sleeved t-shirt away from a mopey indie band.

The lord works in mysterious ways, dude.

[onager]

15. Inaccurate. No hole in that hand.

It reminds me of the campaign in the UK a while back. The subw...er, Tube and buses were decorated with posters of a Tragically Hip Jesus. Caption: "Meek & Mild? As if!"

This was horked up with all the usual hoopla about how the staid old Anglican Church was connecting with modern youth; it would usher in a new Golden Era where younger people would come flocking back into the churches, etc. etc.

If you think that's what happened, you should probably be in the Religion group, writing press releases about the exciting resurgence of America's liberal Xian denominations.

(That's a generic "you," and certainly not directed personally at the OP. Just to be clear.)

As usual, the campaign was a giant flop and was flushed ASAP.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. Appropriate publication date for the subject matter (nt)