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August 16, 2008
Drawing of pedophile looks like Jesus!
The recent news report about convicted pedophile & murderer Joseph Edward Duncan III floored me when I first opened the link. The artist's drawing of him looks virtually identical to renderings of Jesus found in Anglo-centric churches all over North America and Europe.
People seeing images of Jesus, Mary, Allah and even Pope John Paul II in all sorts of things:
- tree rings
- kitchen cabinet doors
- potato chips, cinnamon rolls, Cheetos, peanuts, fish scales
- shrimp tails, ultrasound scans, snake scales, turtle shells and even in the drippings pan of a George Foreman grill
And a hell of a lot of folks actually believe these imagined images are divinely inspired, to the point that some of them are worshipped, particularly by Catholics.
So why not the artist's rendering of a convicted pedophile and murderer? That drawing looks a lot more like the common conception of Jesus than almost all of the worshipped Cheetos, cinnamon rolls and tree bark configurations. If they are divinely inspired and yet require such great amounts of creative imagination to see the supposedly divinity then how much more inspired is a drawing that doesn't require such creative interpretation? Which is why I wanted to blog about it.
Surely an omnipotent, omniscient Being would find it more demeaning to be imagined in the drippings from a cheap grilling machine than in the skilled lines drawn by a gifted artist. N'est pas?
Personally, as a theist, I think it is all so far beyond absurd as to defy the capacity of the written language to adequately describe. I have no doubt that the same folks who would worship a damn shrimp tail would find the suggestion that the drawing of a pedophile & murderer is divinely inspired to be scrilege. But by what rational or even theological standard? None whatsoever as far as I can determine.
Posted by Kevin at August 16, 2008 11:29 AM
