Favorite Thing I’ve Seen Today
Jeff VanderMeer • April 30th, 2008 @ 3:13 pm • Uncategorized
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April 30, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I KNEW IT!!!
It is brilliant.
April 30, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I don’t get it… Jesus holding a dinosaur? Am I missing something?
April 30, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Matt Staggs found it. Perhaps he can explain…
April 30, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Heeheehee. That warms my cockles, it does.
April 30, 2008 at 4:57 pm
I thought of it as a rather amusing comment on the inherent absurdity of “creation science,” myself, but I believe the image also functions well as just a bizarre Dada-like objet d’art.
April 30, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I thought that was from that Creation Museum in Kentucky or something. Amusing, nonetheless. I’m waiting for the image of Jesus holding a 40 next.
April 30, 2008 at 5:25 pm
It’s Jesus holding a Dinosaur - *what’s not to understand*?!?
April 30, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I love it!!!
April 30, 2008 at 6:18 pm
That is one of the most incisive, yet heartwarming, commentaries I’ve encountered regarding evolution v. creationism. I love it.
April 30, 2008 at 8:27 pm
You know, I was a firm evolutionist for as long as I have been able to pronounce the word “science”.
Then, I saw that picture, and it occurred to me that science is powerless against Jesus and his dinosaurs. No amount of science could possibly explain the awesomeness of both Jesus and dinosaurs.
I have seen the light! I renounce my heathen ways of science!
April 30, 2008 at 8:32 pm
In light of the current B.S. going down at our fair capital regarding the Teaching of non-Evolution Theories (AKA how to get religion into the classroom no matter what), I think this is just what the Dr. ordered.
April 30, 2008 at 8:56 pm
I’m waiting for Felix Gilman to appear with a YouTube link to that video of a banana being the atheist’s worst nightmare.
April 30, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Actually, in retrospect, that couldn’t possibly be Jesus.
I recognize him:
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/ap/e410089e-dee1-47fc-a867-8012523752e7.widec.jpg
And the dinosaur? Nope.
http://www.foxnews.com/images/247886/0_61_virgin_dragon.jpg
I don’t know what the heck Chris Robinson is doing in his bathrobe with a baby komodo dragon, but whatever it is, it is far more rational than intelligent design, no matter how much vaseline he’s using to blur that camera lens.
April 30, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Holding a dinosaur as opposed to holding a lamb. Jesus is the shepherd of people, leading them to God/truth. What then is this Jesus that holds a carnivore?
May 1, 2008 at 1:32 am
How come all Jesuses wear hoodies?
May 1, 2008 at 6:40 am
Jesus loves the little di-nos, all the little dinos of the world.
Oh man, symbolism in religion is dead. There’s a reason why it’s supposed to be a lamb.
I can hear the revised homilies now, “And so, like the dinosaurs gave themselves to us to test our beliefs, so did our God give himself up for our sins.” Or, something like that.
May 1, 2008 at 6:47 am
By religion I meant “Christianity.” Sorry about that.
Sarah Endacott, all Jesuses (and I think that’s actually “Jesusi” - if there’s a term like flock, school, or gaggle for multiple Jesuses I don’t know it) wear hoodies because they’re obviously all gangsta (you can’t see the tatts on his back and neck because of the shirts and long hair).
May 1, 2008 at 7:21 am
I want to hang that picture up on my wall now lol.
May 1, 2008 at 8:59 am
Steve, the “God put dinosaur bones into the earth to test our faith” meme still gets some play way down south. One of the librarians at my city’s library has an “Evolution is Science Fiction!” bumper sticker on her car.
May 1, 2008 at 9:19 am
Matt, my wife teaches College Biology, yeah, I know that line of reasoning. And it’s not for just down South.
Also, I wanted to thank you for sharing. The humor and conversation this has generated has been excellent. It all started with the question “But then why’d He let them all go extinct, Daddy!?”
May 2, 2008 at 12:43 am
Mr. Vandermeer, I believe what you really need is a good, long look at Raptor Jesus: http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/6674/11480430233774mj.jpg