Jesus kicks ass
Just when you think you've seen it all, you stumble across something like this on the Saturday religion page. Yes, it's for real. The artiste calls it: "Undefeated." But I like my title better. Hard to picture the son of god duking it out with Mike Tyson. Poor guy would turn the other cheek only to have Iron Mike bite his ear off. I also love the anglicized characterization of this Jesus. You'd never know this Heavyweight Champ is a Jewish dude from the Middle East ...
Tap Jesus on the chin to see a bigger version. (Don't worry. He won't swing back.)
If you want all the gory details, read about it here.
And if you want to see a lot of other really cool Jesus pics, check out Jesus of the Week.
Posted by Bob Benz at March 22, 2003 10:29 AM
Comments. . .
The Southern Baptist Jesus (and that is surely the target audience for this depiction) would be a WWF guy, not a boxer. There are too many black boxers for Southern evangelicals to be boxing fans. And Bob, no illustrator would EVER depict Jesus looking Jewish. Protestant evangelicals wouldn't buy the work because they don't like Jews. Don't forget, I was raised in this culture. I spent childhood Sunday mornings in Sunday School rooms decorated with drawings of a safely WASP-y Jesus, blue-eyed and flaxen-haired.
Posted by: Leanne at March 24, 2003 12:42 PMSo how did you mange to get raised in this culture and not end up a roadie for the Rossington-Collins Band. Damn, girl. Or at least a Stone Cold Steve Austin fan. I think he has something to do with the Bible ...
Posted by: Benz at March 24, 2003 7:49 PMI chalk it up to genetics, because I can come up with no other plausible reason for the way I turned out. Research into the details of my 1966 adoption reveals I came from northern, Catholic stock. My biological mom sold me south to the land of scripture-quoting wrastlers and Rossington-Collins roadies. I was a stranger in a strange peckerwood land.
Posted by: Leanne at March 26, 2003 4:16 PMThere's a song that goes with this Jesus of the Day:
http://www.jesusoftheweek.com/jesii/271/index.html
We had to sing it in Sunday School when I was a little kid. The song goes like this: "Zachius was a wee little man/and a wee little man was he/He climbed up in a sycamore tree/for the Lord he wanted to see...." Mercifully, I've forgotten the rest. The brain has a way of erasing traumatic experiences, the pain of childbirth and songs for Southern Baptist children, from memory. The story is that Zachius (prounounced za-KEE-us) was too short to see over the crowds that turned out for one of Jesus' public appearances. (Christ must have been doing a promotion where he gave out free t-shirts to the first 500 followers.) Anyway, Zak climbed up in a tree to get a better view, sort of like people do at Mardi Gras parades. Jesus saw Zak and told him to come down and walk with him, unlike Mardi Gras parades where if the cops spot you in the limbs, they'll arrest you for being a public nuisance. I'm not sure what the moral of the story is here: Jesus likes short people? Tree-climbing proves you love God?
Posted by: Leanne at March 26, 2003 4:27 PMSpeaking of Jesus tunes ... One of my favorites is the Austin Lounge Lizards' "Jesus Loves Me (But He Can't Stand You):
Posted by: Benz at March 27, 2003 4:52 PM'saw them in harrisburg a few months back. great fun!
jesus loves all his children, by gum
but that don't mean he won't exterminate some...
Posted by: jo at April 16, 2003 5:46 PM
This particular Jesus looks like a roadie for the Rossington-Collins Band.
Posted by: Christian Humanist Redneck Isolationist Swine in Bama at March 22, 2003 10:54 AM