A war of giant Jesuses has entered a new phase. A 36 meter (or 118 feet) Christ was unveiled in Poland last year. Now, President Alan Garcia has responded with Cristo del Pacifico (Christ of the Pacific), on a hill in Lima — standing 37 metres (122 feet). That’s right, four feet more than the Polish Jesus — not doubt now to be known as Jesusito (“little Jesus”) in Peru.
Of course, it depends on how you measure your Jesus. “If the pedestal is included then a statue of Christ in Cochabamba, Bolivia, completed in 1994 is the tallest at 40m (133ft) followed by Christ the Redeemer in Rio at 38m (125ft).”
The statue in Peru has received considerable opposition despite Garcia’s promise that it will “bless and protect Lima.” Putting aside the complete absence of separation of church and state, the statue was placed on one of the most important historic sites in Peru: the location of a 19th century battle against Chile. Well, sure, but Peru just totally “pwned” Chile in the Jesus race.
Of course, this could create a dangerous savior race with other countries rushing to close the Christ gap. This is likely to become an issue in our presidential campaign: where is our giant Jesus? How can we be the world’s superpower with only little Jesuses?
Of course, we already claim the best plastic Jesuses on our dashboards (this is just a transparent excuse to play one of my favorite scenes from Cool Hand Luke):
Jonathan Turley
Source: Telegraph
Bye Buddha buildings 🙁
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/12/world/la-fg-afghan-archeology-20110712
we could always remove the torch and the spiked hat off the statue of liberty, then maybe rearrange the arms a bit.
that and fill in that stuff at the bottom about giving us those tired, hungry, poor people. change it to send money, free relatives. kind of a 21st century “when coin in coffers ring, souls from purgatory springs”.
Jesus was not a Polack or a Peruvian–he was an American; commie bastards.
pete,
Speaking for breast lovers worldwide, your suggestion is ‘udder’ blasphemy.
time to start carving on the grande tetons
then change the name to the great jesus mountians.
I don’t know, you suppose he is trying to compensate for something?
Three decades ago, as I lay in a hospital bed for 2 months from my first MI, this then young Jew used to listen to this continuously. Didn’t change my beliefs but it sure is/was good music.
I wonder if anyone noticed the similarity of salvator mundi to the mona lisa? Now if as some people have speculated that the mona lisa is Leo in drag maybe this is really Leo as savior of the world, and not really Christ at all
Gives new meaning to The Peak of Jesus I suppose.
How many schools will we have to close when the Republicans in Congress discover that the World’s Only Superpower is losing the Giant Jesus Race?
I had to look this up. In the Old Testament of all places it clearly states injunctions against erecting and directions for destroying giant graven Jesuses. Evidently Ezekiel wheel came equipped with drones for just such emergencies!
Christians, read it and weep! One of the Bamiyan Buddhas was 180 feet tall. Of course, there were ways of dealing with that!
A bit long, but… here’s to another day in this crazy world:
Plastic Jesus
– Ernie Marrs; Trad and Anon
Well, I don’t care if it rains or freezes,
Long as I have my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through all trials and tribulations,
We will travel every nation,
With my plastic Jesus I’ll go far.
CHORUS
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through my trials and tribulations,
And my travels thru the nations,
With my plastic Jesus I’ll go far.
I don’t care if it rains or freezes
As long as I’ve got my Plastic Jesus
Glued to the dashboard of my car,
You can buy Him phosphorescent
Glows in the dark, He’s Pink and Pleasant,
Take Him with you when you’re travelling far
I don’t care if it’s dark or scary
Long as I have magnetic Mary
Ridin’ on the dashboard of my car
I feel I’m protected amply
I’ve got the whole damn Holy Family
Riding on the dashboard of my car
You can buy a Sweet Madonna
Dressed in rhinestones sitting on a
Pedestal of abalone shell
Goin’ ninety, I’m not wary
‘Cause I’ve got my Virgin Mary
Guaranteeing I won’t go to Hell
I don’t care if it bumps or jostles
Long as I got the Twelve Apostles
Bolted to the dashboard of my car
Don’t I have a pious mess
Such a crowd of holiness
Strung across the dashboard of my car
ALT CHORUS
No, I don’t care if it rains or freezes
Long as I have my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
But I think he’ll have to go
His magnet ruins my radio
And if we have a wreck he’ll leave a scar
Riding through the thoroughfare
With his nose up in the air
A wreck may be ahead, but he don’t mind
Trouble coming, he don’t see
He just keeps his eyes on me
And any other thing that lies behind
ALT CHORUS
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Though the sun shines on his back
Makes him peel, chip, and crack
A little patching keeps him up to par
When pedestrians try to cross
I let them know who’s boss
I never blow my horn or give them warning
I ride all over town
Trying to run them down
And it’s seldom that they live to see the morning
ALT CHORUS
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
His halo fits just right
And I use it as a sight
And they’ll scatter or they’ll splatter near and far
When I’m in a traffic jam
He don’t care if I say Damn
I can let all sorts of curses roll
Plastic Jesus doesn’t hear
For he has a plastic ear
The man who invented plastic saved my soul
ALT CHORUS
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Once his robe was snowy white
Now it isn’t quite so bright
Stained by the smoke of my cigar
God made Christ a Holy Jew
God made Him a Christian too
Paradoxes populate my car
Joseph beams with a feigned elan
From the shaggy dash of my furlined van
Famous cuckold in the master plan
Naughty Mary, smug and smiling
Jesus dainty and beguiling
Knee-deep in the piling of my van
His message clear by night or day
My phosphorescent plastic Gay
Simpering from the dashboard of my van
When I’m goin’ fornicatin
I got my ceramic Satan
Sinnin’ on the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home
The women know I’m on the level
Thanks to the wild-eyed stoneware devil
Ridin’ on the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home
Sneerin’ from the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home
Leering from the dashboard of my van
If I weave around at night
And the police think I’m tight
They’ll never find my bottle, though they ask
Plastic Jesus shelters me
For His head comes off, you see
He’s hollow, and I use Him for a flask
ALT CHORUS
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Ride with me and have a dram
Of the blood of the Lamb
Plastic Jesus is a holy bar
There is nothin that is cuter
than a smilin Jolly Buddha,
Ridin on the dashboard of my car,
I don’t have no idol cuter,
comes in plastic, bronze and pewter,
Take him with me when I go afar.
Jolly Buddha, fat and squattin,
on a pad of aspirin cotton,
He’s with me wherever I may roam,
When it’s late and I start to hurry,
I know he ain’t gonna worry,
He looks at me and all he says is, “Oooommmmmmm.”
There is nothing that is gaucher
Than eatin food that isn’t kosher,
Right in front of my smilin Moses’ face,
I’m afraid that he’ll awaken
When I’m eatin ham or bacon,
And throw them Ten Commandments in my face.
I don’t care if I’m broke or starvin’
As long as I’ve got a fish named Darwin
Glued to the trunklid of my car
God, I’m feeling so evolved
Drivin’ with my problems solved
Proclaiming what I think of what we are
Riding home one foggy night,
With my honey cuddled tight,
I missed a curve and off the road we veered.
My windshield got smashed-up good,
And my darling graced the hood.
Plastic Jesus, He had disappeared.
cho: Plastic Jesus! Plastic Jesus,
No longer chides me with His holy grin.
Doctors in the X-ray room
Found Him in my darling’s womb.
Someday, He’ll be born again!
I don’t care if it rains or freezes
Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
He’s the dude with the rusty nails,
Walks on water, don’t need no sails
Riding on the dashboard of me car
I don’t care if the night is scary
As long as I got the Virgin Mary
Sittin’ on the dashboard of my car.
She don’t slip and she don’t slide
Cuz her butt is magnetized
Sittin’ on the dashboard of my car.
Now I’m feeling quite contrary,
cos I got the Virgin Mary
Sitting on the dashboard of my car
There’s no room for imperfection,
in my Catholic collection
Which sits upon the dashboard of my car
Jesus, Mary and St. Patrick,
now I’ve got the holy hat-trick
Sitting on the dashboard of my car
One more statue I’ve got to get
is the plastic Bernadette
Sitting on the dashboard of my car
Plastic Jesus, you’ve got to go,
your magnet’s burst my radio
Sitting on the dashboard of my car
But I, won’t lose faith and I won’t lose hope
cos, now I’ve got a pope on a rope
Swinging from the dashboard of my car
Once as I drove to Knock,
at a petrol station I got a shock
at the special offers that they had for me
20 more points and I can barter for a Jesus with stigmata
to sit upon the dashboard of my car
http://www.whitetreeaz.com/plastic_jesus/
Kind of a contradiction here…new?
New Leonardo Da Vinci Painting To Be Made Public (VIDEO, PHOTO)
A lost work by Leonardo da Vinci has been found in a private American collection. The painting ” Salvator Mundi,” (below) which shows Christ raising his hand in blessing, will be unveiled a the National Gallery in London later this year.
“Salvator Mundi” has been authenticated by experts as the missing Leonardo painting once owned by Charles I and Charles II. The painting was known to exist due to documentation and a 1750’s engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar. The last important Leonardo discovery was a hundred years ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/29/new-leonardo-da-vinci-pai_n_887099.html
That is such a good church camp song…..lol….where I learned it…