The Force be with you

Let us lift up our lightsabers. We lift them up to the Force.

Skewered by Mercy

I found this on my tumblr dash some time back. It’s about time this blog had another dose of crappy Jesus art.

PEW PEW PEW! FEEL THE LASERS OF DIVINE MERCY!

Spotted at the National Basilica…

More strange Jesus art.  Bear in mind, the gift shop here is a polarizing mixture of kitsch and class, with objects from each category often sharing shelf space.  You’ll find stuff that is either really really cool or really really odd.  And so I give you… Soul-Patch Jesus Pieta.

Pfffffffffffffffffft

It appears that Crescat has given up her Crappy Jesus Art in favour of Fine Art Friday, so I guess I can try to fill the gap (though I’m not nearly as pithy OR as witty, I’m afraid).

What is this I’m twelve years old and I don’t even

 

Caption contest.  Beat mine.  (It’s a default response.)

More crappy Jesus art!

Looks like a writer over at Cracked.com must think like Crescat does.

(Warning: Cracked is notorious for language and profanity and… well, rude jokes.  Nonetheless, this article is hilarious.)

Honestly, I wonder if people actually… you know… think before they paint these things…

Avatar Jesus

Relatively recently, I was at a college Catholic Center for Mass.  The homily was rather long and I must confess that my eyes glazed over somewhere in the middle and instead of paying attention, I found myself staring at the painting on the wall.  It was really, really ugly.  The friends I was with agree that it was probably donated.  Finding an image online loses some of the “depth” of the painting–the random shadows and rocky crags.  I suspect it was supposed to be an image of the Transfiguration?  But I’m not entirely sure.

(This isn’t meant as a slam on the Catholic Center or its university.  If you know where it is please don’t call it out.)

Observe the strange, ugly painting in its austere natural habitat.  Notice the unique composition.  Is it bringing anything to mind?  It did to me.

Yes, fellow children of the 90’s.  This IS from the very first episode of Avatar: the Last Airbender.  This is, indeed, Avatar Aang stuck in an iceberg.  And this is the reason for my nickname for the above Ugly Jesus Painting (and the title of this post).

To the painter of Avatar Jesus: in the words of Crescat, you make Baby Jesus cry. (I wanted to link back to her “Bad Art” tag, but since she left Blogspot for Patheos, it doesn’t exist any more…)