This year, church attending folks of Kansas City, KS are reminding their fellow townies of the True Reason For The Season... by dressing up as Jesus and going about their daily business.I wish I could afford a round-trip ticket to interview and hang-out with these Jesus Look-Alikes. With any luck, they've started a trend that will spread to my city next year.
According to this article, they were inspired by an in-your-face advertising campaign by atheists to OUT other atheists and encourage a better understanding of atheism in general.
One good in-your-face-back-lash deserves another.
So Jesus is kicking-it in the coffee shops of Kansas City. I'd pay big bucks for a pic of JC in a bar.
I'm afraid they are doing themselves no favors beyond further secularizing the Icon of a fictionalized version of a Scapegoat in a long, long line of scapegoats.
How would they feel about pregnant, single women dressing up as Mary and parading around town? How would they feel about children and teenagers dressing up like Jesus? How would they feel about Jesus in Drag, male or female?
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Kimberly Brooks, one of those legit bloggers over at Huffington Post, wrote two delightful articles which include the "The Holy Trinity" (2002) painting above, which is part of a larger work by artist Chris Roth.
"First Person Artist: Chris Roth To The Rescue!"
"Artists Who Heart Jesus"
Chris Roth
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RELATED ARTICLES:
"Bad Times Draw Bigger Crowds to Churches" NYTimes, 12/14/08
"Season's greetings from the secular side" August Berkshire of MNAtheists for StarTribune 11/23/08
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Eat Drink and Be Mary
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(yikes and yuck! this must be my most link-riddled post yet)
13 comments:
You took the words right out of my mouth...it's like when someone responded to the Washington State atheist display by saying "I know they'll fry like a Jimmy Dean pure pork sausage, heh, on judgment day." Don't they realize that they're further bastardizing their religion?
Brilliant. Sometimes you just have to stand back and have a grand belly laugh at the expense of religious people who don't realize how much they compromise their beliefs deeper into absurdity.
Well on light of this fascinating christian conversion technique... which seems to be not as good as telling us to study a good NIV study Bible, then pick and choose which portions we beleive...maybe we should dress up as our atheist fathers or something...I suppose that would be Jesus for me or a monkey.
Yes, Yes, and Yes. I'm sure there are plenty of JC believers who are horrified by this. But it sounds like it was a success... or at least got a lot of publicity... and Jesus needs all the publicity he can get, right?
Christine, I have not posted here before but love, love, love your blog and read it as I am able.
Don't hate me (especially since this is my first post), but you've been tagged.
skyewriter... wow! Thanks for the wonderful comment. Unfortunately I NEVER have been one for playing tag. I actually really dislike tag.
But in the effort to be a good sport, and since I have absolutely no reason to hate you, I shall contemplate my next move. No guarantees. If I walk off and sit under a tree and refuse to play, don't take it personally. How much time do I have?
The person who tagged me did not give me a time frame-- like, maybe, never?
I promise not to take it personally should you not choose to play.
Hope it's okay I linked your blog to my blog.
Happy New Year!
I want to see someone dressed as a hair metal version of Jesus, complete with sexy pout, heavy makeup, and androgynous hand-on-hip pose. Maybe next year?
Happy new year!
Frodo.... your wish is my command.
The fundies have had Christ in Christmas for roughly 2,000 years. I think maybe those old pagan deities are ready for a return! You know, Saturn, Cernunnnos and, my favorite, Krampus! He looks like some goal/devil and goes around scaring children in parts of Europe.
Next year, I'm dressing as Krampus and challenging any Jesus wannabes to a fist fight! May the best deity win bragging rights to Christmas/Yule/Winter Solstice/Alban Arthan--etc.
Or better yet, Befana! The Gift Giving Witch in Italy---Move over Satan Claws! There's a new consumeristic cultural icon in town!
Anyhow HFJFF has been Tagged!
Holy crap--back tracking to Skywriter---I got sloppy seconds. Christine! What would Jesus Say?
There was a guy I knew in grad. school--skinny with long brown hair and beard, who showed up to a Halloween party as Jesus. I, as it turned out, was there as the Dude from the Big Lebowski, so somebody somewhere has pictures of the Dude drinking beer with Jesus (including one where the photo got partially exposed, actually giving Jesus kind of an aura...).
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