Yeah, I’m serious, because in a sense they’re already doing it. And although I’ve filed this under “Cartoons”, “Political” and “Religion” I have not filed it under “Humor”. This is tragedy, not comedy.
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Cartoon credit: David Horsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Interesting, funny, and scarily true. The image of Jesus gets recycled and reinvented every few years. The most popular image I know, especially as a person growing up in the 1970′s, is the one that looks like Kenny Loggins. I’ve also seen images of a blond Jesus, or at least sandy haired, with very Northern European features. An odd image considering he was born and lived in the middle-east.
Some contextualizing is OK, so that people can identify with him. Hence the blonde/blue-eyed Jesus in much of European art, or the dark skin in the African folk-tale children’s books written by an artist friend of mine.
But when his character gets altered in order to justify evil, un-Christlike behavior, I get up on my hind legs.
Matthew 7:15-23 comes to mind, about false prophets and wolves in sheeps clothing. Jesus says to them, “Get away from me; I never knew you.”
Thanks for the comment about the cartoon. Scarily true is right.