I have mixed feeling about this image

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[Wounded Bear]

1. I find it to be great creative sarcasm...

but then I'm an irreligious piece of shit.

[Brainstormy]

14. Me too. I love it! n/t

[dchill]

2. Not me. Completely unmixed feelings.

[CrispyQ]

3. I love that they put Make America Great Again in Russian on the hat.

If only it had a little "Made in Honduras" sticker sticking out.

[anneboleyn]

19. Its in English. Ive seen other maga hats rendered in Russian but not this one...

[CrispyQ]

20. I thought the bottom line was the Russian translation.

It's not clear, but you're right.

[MontanaMama]

4. This kinda gave me the willies...

and I'm not Christian. However, it does seem to sum up the hypocrisy of many self proclaimed Christians out there IMO.

[Nitram]

5. I like the red neck Jebus.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. I don't think the Prince Of Peace would be rocking a MAGA hat.

[Nitram]

10. Neither do I, but it is a great jab at the rural evangelical crowd.

[enough]

6. I don't. K&R. NT

[MineralMan]

7. Who knew that Jesus looked like a CW star?

[HAB911]

9. Jesus was white?!

[underpants]

13. ✅

[progressoid]

24. And American.

USA!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. It quoted the passage incorrectly. Again. Like every other time I've see it cited. NT

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[Glorfindel]

12. The phrasing is awkward. Shouldn't it be "let him.....cast the first stone?"

Or better yet, "He who hasn't raw dogged a porn star just after the birth of his fifth child with his third wife, let him cast the first stone."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

23. Every time that passage is cited, the person citing it gets it wrong. Every last time.

Here is the original. It is grammatically correct.

John 8 : 7 King James Version (KJV)

7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

[DavidDvorkin]

42. Yes, it should be "let him"

Using the nominative in such constructions is a common error.

[Ferrets are Cool]

15. I love the creativity. The

only problem I have with it is that "he" couldn't have looked like this. BUT, it's the only image of "him" that white evangelicals would recognize.

[marybourg]

16. What would a Jewish man look like that differs from that image?

This image actually looks a lot like my late (Jewish) uncle.

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. ...

https://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/c_limit,w_680/fl_lossy,pg_1,q_auto/jesus-popular-mechanics_pgx1uq.jpg

[Nonhlanhla]

21. This is correct

That's the closet to an authentic image of Jesus that we have, based on research. Kind of looks like someone Trumpers would want out of the country, right?

Edited to add: I am referring to the image at the popularmechanics link. Not the one on top of the thread, of course.

(Religion scholar here who teaches classes on this.)

[mr_lebowski]

32. Given there's exactly zero known contemporaneous accounts of his living ...

Seems it'd be pretty much impossible for anyone to nail down with any real accuracy ... what the guy looked like.

In fact it's just as likely that he's 100% and entirely fictitious ... as not.

There's absolutely NO physical evidence, no proven artifacts or belongings of his, and he's not in any historical record at the time he was supposedly alive, nor are there any first-hand accounts of him written by others who directly knew him while alive (though MANY records and writings from that exact time period and area of the world do still exist). That's despite The Church (Catholic and others) expending tremendous resources to try to find any such records for like 1600 years.

If memory serves the first time 'He' appears in ANY record is something like 25-40 years after his supposed death and even that one is somewhat speculative ...

[Nonhlanhla]

43. There is some debate on this, yes.

This image is based on what a Galilean Jew of the time typically looked like. The image is the result of historical scholarship, not Catholic dogma.

[lunasun]

30. Oh that Jesus ?? He must go. Out Jesus not European enuf

[Ferrets are Cool]

41. Must be one of those shithole countries.

[marybourg]

31. Paint me dubious.

This would indicate a lot of intermingling of genes with lighter European populations in the intervening 2000 years and DNA studies tend not to show this. And from personal experience growing up in a dense and predominately Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx, I've never seen Jews as dark as that who emigrated from ghettos where intermingling was unlikely. I did know 2 Jewish families with dark skin, but they also had non-Caucasian facial features and hair and had emigrated from cosmopolitan Morocco.

[Wounded Bear]

18. European Jews of the present day...

may not look a lot like the Jews of Palestine in Roman times. More likely they would be browner, with curlier hair.

[lunatica]

22. Actually a modern Jesus would say just that!

And he would definitely look like a country music super star.

Why not? We all know Jesus was Aryan don’t we?

[L. Coyote]

25. They should be using Alfred E. Neuman instead.

[aeromanKC]

26. The last time Jesus was in America was a while ago

when he dropped off the Mormon Tablets in what is today's New York. (That was awful nice of him to do that by the way) Make America Great Again!! So now we know.

[lunasun]

33. Didnt someone spot him leaving Chicago bound for New Orleans ? He was waitin on a bus I think

They said he was workin' from one end to the other and all points in between...

[Gothmog]

27. I also have mixed feelings on this image

[Danmel]

28. I don't like it

And I'm a Jewish woman. I find it disrespectful.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. My mom was Jewish, My dad wasn't. I will say Jesus was a rabbi.

I have mixed feelings about the image because I believe Jesus was nothing like Trump.

[Girard442]

29. It's pic of a dude with a beard in a MAGA hat with some sarcastic words under it.

The dude may bear some resemblance to a fictitious and wholly ahistorical depiction of some other dude who may have existed or may have not, but if he did, wouldn't have looked like anything like that.

[lunasun]

37. I love when he has long blond hair

[Bayard]

34. Love it!

I don't find it anymore disrespectful than Hobby Lobby stealing Iraqi religious relics. Or all of the Native American historical and religious items that have been dug up and sold over the past couple hundred years. Or.....

[NCTraveler]

36. We can now type it as...

"religious relics"

[NCTraveler]

35. By mixed feelings.

It made you laugh because of it's humorous play off of scripture and made you cry because it's based on a real situation involving our Christian President?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

39. I have mixed feelings about the image because I believe Jesus was nothing like Trump.

[NCTraveler]

40. I don't see how the image equates the two in any way. Just the opposite. nt.

[GusBob]

44. Jehovah Jehovah Jehovah

Reminds me of a Monty Python skit