Awesomely weird Jehova's Witness art

[kittykatkoffeekup]

Via BoingBoing.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/10/12/awesomely_weird_jeho.html

UGH!

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Give'em a dime

...and they'll go away.

Or is it up to a quarter now?

[hickman1937]

2. Why would JW's get so much joy from people burning?

Every damn cult is just a click. "I'm in, and you're not. I'm so damn superior(saved) to you because you're not one of us(a nerd).

[JVS]

24. A clique has to have exclusivity, the JW's generally invite everyone in.

You may have noticed them at your door before. What they seem obsessed with is not so much the "I'm saved, you're not" as in the "God is pissed and if we don't obey him we're going to get fucked up"

[hickman1937]

38. My dear JVS, I let them in my door.

I spoke with them. They said they would study Bible with me, but they wanted me to study their red book. I couldn't understand the Bible without reading their book. This was in the early 90's when they thought Jesus was just a prophet. It's a long story, but they gave up on me. Stopped coming over. In my defense, I always served cake and tea.

[JVS]

40. Wow. I didn't know that they gave up.

[enigmatic]

3. Oh man....

That is some freaked-out stuff!

[enigmatic]

4. This one is creepy

From 1983, w/ a plane flying towards the Twin Towers:

[kittykatkoffeekup]

5. One of their board games, maybe?

[JVS]

8. Check out this one

And what happened to them? "It rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed them all." Jesus warns that he will execute a like judgment when he is revealed, soon, as "the Son of man."–Gen. 19:24-26; Luke 17:28-30; Jude 7.

[JVS]

9. I'm getting suspicious now

[kittykatkoffeekup]

12. Now your creeping me out

I didn't look at that much of it, so I missed those.

[JVS]

17. Here is one that may be fun for people who dislike organized religion

[enigmatic]

14. Holy Crap!

That's just......creepy..

[Heidi]

6. I'm not bothered by it.

In my opinion, it's no different than the jillions of examples of art produced by other religions, including the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jesus paintings and prints which hang in countless churches and homes. :shrug:

[Robeson]

10. Oh yes, you mean the Nordic Christ?!!.....

...that one always tickles me too! I call it the Peter O'Toole Jesus.

[Heidi]

11. I once was castigated in vacation Bible school

for suggesting that the famous portrait of Jesus made him look un-Jewish, to which the VBS teacher replied, "Jesus wasn't a Jew." This was the beginning of my undoing as a Baptist. :eyes:

[Robeson]

13. I think Baptist explains it all.....

...they think he was Anglo-Saxon.

[Heidi]

15. Never mind that whole

"King of the Jews" business. That musta been a typo. :rofl:

[Robeson]

19. Hey, ain't you ever heard of the King James versions????....

...that PROVED Jesus was English!!...:rofl: :rofl:

[Heidi]

20. I'm gonna ask Billyskank if that's true.

Billy's English and he'll give us the straight scoop. :think:

[JVS]

21. Ask about the legend that Jesus spent his young adulthood in England

[Heidi]

22. I'm taking notes here!

1. Was Jesus truly English?

2. Is it true that Jesus spent his young adulthood in England?

3. Was Jesus ever seen wearing white buckskin shoes?

Any other questions?

[JVS]

26. And did those feet in ancient times, walk upon England's mountains green?

And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?

[Heidi]

28. Oh, Lord.

Let's do this: I'll start the thread, and you can add your probing questions there. :thumbsup:

[JVS]

29. I was just quoting William Blake's "Jerusalem"

[Heidi]

31. Still . . .

I think those questions merit answers from an authority higher than this expatriate American. :evilgrin:

[Robeson]

30. Well, you may want to ask the Baptist why they hate homosexuals....

...since the version of the of the Bible they worship, "The King James Version", was sponsored by King James, a homosexual....

[Heidi]

32. Sorry, I asked Baptists enough questions

between the ages of six and 18 that they no longer respond to me. :shrug:

[Robeson]

36. Yeah, they do hate questions, don't they?....

...or as their motto goes..."thou art NOT to ask questions"....

[Heidi]

37. Why do you hate America, Robeson?

[Robeson]

39. Just like I told you. It looks just like my Peter O'Toole Jesus...

....

[enigmatic]

16. hahahaha

Oh boy, I guess he thought Jesus was a ringer for Pat Boone, I take it?

[Heidi]

18. I think there's a connection there, enigmatic.

"Footprints in the sand . . ." "Love letters in the sand."

Spooky. :tinfoilhat:

[enigmatic]

23. If there's a painting of Jesus

wearing White Buck-Skin Shoes, we'll know for sure:)

[Heidi]

25. Good, insightful observation.

I've added it to the list:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4144368&mesg_id=4144572

[hickman1937]

35. Or, for crying out loud, a Chinese Jesus.

http://images.google.com/images?q=chinese+jesus&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official_s&sa=N&tab=wi&sourceid=tipimg

What's next? Native American Jesus?

[KitchenWitch]

7. That is fucking disturbing.

[Whoa_Nelly]

27. THIS is disturbing

[KitchenWitch]

33. That too!

Jeebus, they know no boundaries.

[Heidi]

34. Wow, that's inspiring.

I'm getting a certain reassuring vibe from that tire print.

[MrScorpio]

41. Incredible artistic skill - disturbing subject matter

Wow!

[ghostsofgiants]

42. The dude in the front on the left...what's with his hair?

Is he the newest incarnation of The Misfits or something?

[Elidor]

43. I like this one

These people are so much fun!