... and on the third day He arose and was like “Whaaaat?” and the people were like “Whaaaaat?”
Thus captions The Crescat who teases us. Carolina Cannonball vacillates, posting everything from the sublime to the sublimely ridiculous, which is why I must stop there every few days and simply gaze with dropped jaw – always with dropped jaw – and in “shock and awe.” Not always the transcendent kind.
Today we learn that some church art makes Baby Jesus cry. You’ll want to go look. To be honest, some of the submissions are mere pikers to pretension, and I could actually live with them, if I had to. Others…shudder…could scare you more than bodies in glass coffins. I’m sorry but the Deep Sea Diving Helmet/Radio Receiver Tabernacle is just offensively ugly. And the scary Jesus with shadowy, silhouetted people looks decidedly menacing. I don’t know what to make of “Butcher Shop Jesus.” And Rock Monster Jesus…there are no words.
Go look – maybe you have a submission?
July 2nd, 2009 | 2:32 pm | #1
He looks like a standup comedian. “Vot’s up wit dat? So Ed, Farrah and Jacko show up at the Pearly Gates at the same time… and I turn to Dad and say…”
July 2nd, 2009 | 2:34 pm | #2
Yikes some of that stuff is terrible.
By the way, have you seen this?
The article is so slanted.
And the comments are actually kind of depressing.
[Yes, I wrote on this here and I'll write on it later - I didn't think it was as slanted as some, but Laurie Goodstein did disappoint. Edited to admit link -admin]
July 2nd, 2009 | 2:46 pm | #3
Thanks for the laugh. At first, I didn’t see the hands on rock monster Jesus.
It looked more like Pez Dispenser Jesus.
July 2nd, 2009 | 8:03 pm | #4
No, let’s be honest. Some church art probably makes Adult Jesus fetch around for the scourge.
July 2nd, 2009 | 11:38 pm | #5
I have on occasion made the claim that when it comes to denominational differences, when it comes to who builds the outrageously grotesque churches, Catholics and Lutherans cannot be matched. Certainly we can — and do! — build subblimly beautiful churches, but when we do ugly, we can’t be beat. Baptists and evangelicals can build ugly high-school gymnasiums and worship in them, but they can’t match us for high camp over the top takes your breath away with the sheer audacity of ugliness.
July 3rd, 2009 | 4:40 am | #6
Jesus said our Faith would be tested . . .
We just never expected that the tests would be coming from inside as often as they do.
July 3rd, 2009 | 2:07 pm | #7
[...] Even worse…the scourge of “applause” at the end of mass. Perhaps the congregation is trying to encourage the musicians, but I really hate it, and I wish the music ministers would take the time before mass to maybe tell people NOT to do it, as applause is not really what their “ministry” is supposed to be about. But that’s my bugaboo. In addition to ugly Catholic Music, don’t miss the Ugly Catholic Art [...]
July 3rd, 2009 | 6:47 pm | #8
Thanks for the invitation for a look-see, but I think I’ll pass–that kinda stuff is begging to be seen which is precisely why I’m not going out of my way to see it.
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