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As much as I enjoy Rignolo's Studio, it doesn't seem to prompt comment on the images posted. Hence this thread. I think this is an interesting image. Playing the devil's advocate against a religious perspective, it puts me in mind of the question posed in William Blake's poem "Tyger" (posted below). But from a secular point of view, I think that compassion for life - not just human life - is an important moral stance. Unfortunately, to continue living, one is forced to consume other forms of life. To me, to claim the existence of a diety is to admit sadistic design. When the continuance of life is predicated on the destruction of life what other reasonable conclusion can one come to? All that aside, I like what the symbol of Christ has come to mean for most people.


Tyger (from Songs of Experience)
By William Blake


Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?


In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
1794
 
Who is the man wearing a tunic? Should I suppose the man is Jesus Christ? If so, why? Because he has long hair, a beard, and is wearing a tunic? Then millions of people, according to this description, are also Jesus, and alive today. Most of them (that follow that description) are even atheists!!! My personal mental image of Christ was deduced from a book by Karl Jaspers, taken from the Scriptures, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." Exodus 20:4.

If God exists (and I mean, the True God) it may even be a blasphemy to picture him as a human being. Or, even to use "him" when one addresses such a immensely powerful Being. Does he have a penis? I don't believe in God, any, but I personally feel it is very disrespectful, to picture Mohammed with a bomb under his turban, or, as it is this case, Jesus with a dinosaur in his hands. If someone wants truly to be respectful, give everything you own to the poor, as Jesus said, instead of trying to be famous degrading sacred symbologies.

New York Time Publishes Image Of Virgin Mary In Elephant Dung Instead Of Muhammad Cartoons :: Dhimmitude :: Hyscience
 
Alberto, that could very well be the baby from David Lynch's Eraserhead in the illustration. If so, I think the mood must shift to sympathy and compassion, two fine things whether one believes in God or not.
 
Does anyone else remember Son a God (sp?) comics from the old National Lampoon Magazine "Is Nothing Sacred" issue? I'll see if I still have a copy but I can't scan it with my pc Maybe some other holdover from the '60s can scan it or knows of a link. (By the way, nothing was sacred)
 
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