The devil, you say
By adamg - Thu, 09/20/2007 - 8:17pm.
The Globe reports:
A 160-year-old marble bust of Christ was attacked at the main branch of the Boston Public Library, knocked from its perch on the grand staircase and sent crashing to the floor. Nearby, a matching marble bust of Lucifer was left untouched.
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What a dumb dichotomy
What a disgusting act of vandalism.
I saw that lede and the corresponding pick. No one would know that the untouched bust was of Lucifer; it looks like a normal curly-haired White dude - it could pass as Beethoven. And perhaps it is labeled, but I didn't see a sign indicating it was Lucifer.
Perhaps JC was targeted because because some people hate JC. After all Jesus said, "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." But mentioning the fact that Lucifer came through unscathed is about as relevant as noting that the "Curious George" books in the Margaret & H. A. Rey room came through unscathed.
And why is there a penis growing from the bottom of the Christ bust? Who put that there? Could it be...Satan?
Snake!
I think it's a snake, not a penis.
(I do have to say, when I went to look at the picture, that was the first thing I thought of, too. It took me a moment to figure it out.)
Maybe the vandal was attacking the snake? Or maybe they thought it was a penis, too, and they have... issues.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Ah, you're right.
I didn't see the body wrapped around. I can understand snake wrapped around Satan, but why Christ?
Why A Snake
Well, Satan is often represented as a snake in The Bible. I suppose it somehow symbolizes the battle between Christ and Satan.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Bet God sues the vandals....
look... here's proof:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070920/odd-suing-god/
AAAAAAAHAHAHA
"This was not the first time Christ was attacked."
RLY.
The two suspects were working at cross purposes
Just Working Out?
Perhaps this weight tossing exercise was suggested by their Pilate instructor?
Pilates
Would that have bee Pontius Pilates?
Jesus Bust Busted
Several years ago, an agnostic living in Italy got so tired of Jesus being foisted on him everywhere he went, filed suit in an Italian court to force believers to prove that Jesus even existed. The authorities blocked his suit and it never came to court, but there are still many who insist that the Jesus Christ myth is completely made up and that a living, breathing source of that myth never existed. Discovery Magazine ran a story on how Jesus might have appeared if he DID exist...a man of moderate height with distinctly Semitic features, nothing like the John Tesh-with-flowing-beard familiar today.