RE: Man Crucifies Himself
May 20, 2011 at 5:32 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2011 at 5:44 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 20, 2011 at 5:10 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I don't know that I'd call anyone drilling holes through their own hands & feet a wimp. A deranged lunatic, maybe, but not a wimp. Of course, regular nails are way too small. You should use steel spikes. And you should blunt the tips of the nails before driving them in so that they don't split the wood. Jesus knew this, he was a carpenter's son. I wish I had that cartoon to share here.
Oh and I like how in the bible it was very specific that Jesus was crucified naked, but in popular religious art you always see a cloth around his waist. I guess that goes in hand with Jesus always being portrayed as a blond haired, blue eyed European type instead of the dark, swarthy, middle-easterner he really would have been.
A naked, swarthy, hairy, bearded middle-eastern type would not serve the latent homoerotic appeal of christianity, at least not for where Christianity has already been driven more or less into extinction by Islam.
Think of how far the cult would have gotten around the world if Jesus was protray in a manner more probable for his ethnicity - short of like a naked, skinnier, sheik Kahlid Muhammud with a beard:
Or a bin laden with shorter, darker beard.