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Parishioners at a church in Sweden celebrated Easter on Sunday by unveiling a 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter-tall) statue of Jesus that they had built out of 30,000 Lego blocks.
It took the 40 volunteers about 18 months to put all the tiny plastic blocks together, and their creation shows a standing Jesus facing forward with his arms outstretched.
I wonder if any of the parishioners took the time to ask, “Why in the world are we building a statue of Jesus out of legos?”
(To which the proper reply, of course, is “So we can be featured on Unreasonable Faith!”)
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Maybe they took that command of Jesus about being like children a bit too seriously? I mean, if they’re still playing with Lego at that age…
Looks like a female michael jackson impersonator to me. The open arms and face is really creepy
“You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.”
-.Exodus 20:4
Nothing about lego here blocks so I guess all is fine…
How can you talk about Lego Jesus and not mention The Brick Testament?
http://www.thebricktestament.com/
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Deuterotomy’s laws concerning male genital injury played out in Lego form.
http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/male_genital_injury/dt23_01a.html
I wonder how many people they could have helped in the same 18 months? I find it weakens their stance of being more charitable when they waste so much time and money on a project that is just a stunt. I do understand why they do these types of things but it makes me wonder what they might be hiding about themselves.
And what wonderful things did you do for the world in that 18 month period?
No offense intended, but I laughed out loud when I read your post. As if the only thing Christians can spend their time doing is “helping.”
You know, I heard this story on NPR, and I guess their description wasn’t very good, because I just imagined this primary-colored monstrosity.
I also imagined that Jesus might have the standard yellow lego-guy skin.
Lego models are very easy to modify by just added more lego to it.
Big cocked jesus, anyone?
Also, it must’ve cost a fortune to get that many grey lego blocks. An utter fortune. Lego is expensive, and even moreso when you want a specific colour.
I just wonder if it’s hollow. I don’t know why, but that was my first thought.
The inside of the body is composed of multiple color legos — the theological point being that Jesus (and his church) should be receptive of every race.
I’m glad my fundy husband builds castles and spacial warships instead of Jesus statues. Now, that would be creepy. The stuff is expensive, I know.
And yeah, that Jesus looks more like the Virgin Mary. The way his hand breaks is a bit ….well!
I…simply don’t see the point to that kind of activity.
That is so cool! Work of art indeed….be it Jesus or Michael Jackson….Kudos to the ingenuity of the Swiss…..love Swiss chocolate. My brother-in-law is Swiss German and is an executive Chef at the Westin hotel in Guam….maybe I should send him the link….he could create an ice-sculpture….hmmm.
eh…Sweden? Not Switzerland :p
In turn I will take my shot. Undermining faith is one thing. Deliberately scarring work that took commiment, belief, and teamwork of many or few is incorrigible. The work that you see was driven by faith or fame. Either is accepted in our society. Attacking the work to justify your belief or non-belief is petty and limp. If you question your own knowledge of greater purpose, maybe you should seek direction or education. Greater good is all we have.
JRP
Idiot.
Why did you let a little thing like the virgen Mary story keep you from knowing the truth? Didn’t you know you don’t need the Bible to come to the truth? If you want to know more about this, let me know and I’ll tell you about it.
Brad
Looool. And YOU know the truth, do you? That’s a laugh.
Dude. I’m 30 years old and I still play with Lego.
I don’t make Jesus statues though. Spaceships, yes.
I wonder if any of the parishioners took the time to ask, “Why in the world are we building a statue of Jesus out of legos?”
I think the better question is, “Why in the world would we not build a statue of Jesus out of legos?”
Hey, I'm all for more Lego stuff.
Though I'm forced to ask–what happens when they finally decide to break it back down into its component Legos? Perhaps it'll mystically rebuild itself three days on?
lol
But they can’t! that would be sacrilegous. Luckily, there are in a developed country with lots of atheists to do the work for them :P
Yeah, this one really made me proud to be swedish.. But hey, I’m all for lego, maybe just not in Jesus shape.. ;D
Looks like the statue is ready to pounce on that little kid!
…very appropriate, in tune/tone with the word, lego/tleco(N)=to rise, the nauatl(N)word is the root
of, legion, religion, lex(Lat), ley(sp), leg(E), regular(E), rex(Lat, rey(sp), jesus is a king of sorts,
altho i’m sure he’d seed(pun)the title to his father. by the way, on calling god/god, which roots
in the word, cotoni(N)=pinch(cut), cotton, the (OHG)=gott, the ku(r)d word=khuda(god) and their
early history is one of cannibalism, like everyone else, so god is an early word from that time,
which i feel has unpleasant association and only covers his/her function as the cutter/gutter
of life when we leave it, or the agency by which we do, therefore i don’t think it’s a name that
dignifys what we really mean by deity. i opt for the name, teotl(N)/theother(E)/teo/theo(logy)/
deo/dea, as it tells us certainly that we are not deo/teo and makes us look out of ourselves
instead of inward. this is a very cu(r)t, selfish/shellfish age which doesn’t need another breath
or word of separation to encourage it. what is inside us is the gift of deity, through the mime,
the fallen angel, cf.,tzopilotl wordpress/missing mithen, our neander promethea. origins are important, word is spirit, and tending our garden of words, so they are not infested by wrong
derivations and bad usage, will keep us from drifting into evil, e.g., devil and evil are from the
same word, teuitl(N)=glass, the words, drivel/dribble(E) also. we can’t afford to misuse words,
as it is a misuse of our gifts and the soul within us that we all have in language. we can
only work our way back to deo/dea/deity by examining the gift our species shares, as this
is the only chord that unites our hearts and minds to each other and to teo/theo/theology.
and there are other teotl: tree/t(r)eow/teotl / reed/rood/rod/rheod(OE)teotl / reel(dance)/rheol(OE)
teotl(N) / deer/deor(OE)teotl / lion/leon(sp)learning/leo(r)nian(OE)teotl(N)/theology. learning also
from, lernia(OFrisian)/ l/t/tle(r)n(i)a/ leña(sp)=wood= tletl(N)=oldest deity(fire)= t/l/red/t/l=
read/ t/let/l letra(sp)=letter. so you see, language is deity, the fact that spanish words
are involved points to the source of promethean fire and language and the founding deitys
being located in the cave complexes of iberia/france.
thank you for your attention,
and as the bible says:
diòs is logos.
…let’s see, qui(N/Latin)=who, quittani(N)=who sees, becomes the word, witness, with the (r/s)
inclusions, becomes, qu(r)i(s)tanni=christanni=christian. ok, now, who speaks= quitoa(N),
with (r/s) inclusions= qu(r)i(s)toa =khristos(gk)= ch(r)i(s)t christ. hmmm, never wrote a word,
what we have is heresay. ah, jose, is the japanese word, yose(J)=story teller’s hall, a variety
(music) hall, vaudeville. my, my, what have we here? something the western church swept under
their albs?, what the (N)auatl? yo=yotl(N)=yo(sp)= I, and -se/ce(N)=one, alone, so the title of
what later becomes the christian vaudeville, is entitled: i, alone. so that’s why jesus has such
difficulty with parents and why his birth was mysterious: he originally was an orphan. aha,
let’s check the orphic myth of the greeks as orpfeè(Fr) is the first gullible western civ. hears
about a personage who went to hell for someone(peresphone)and came back. wait, let’s check
orpheè, the name, with nauatl using letra. let’s see, here is, icnoa(N)=deserving, from,
ic=where no=my a=atl=water, no, that’s noah of genesis(bible), his story was about water and
deserving, ah, here it is, ic no pilli(N)=where my child?=orphan= icnopilli? let’s put in (r) inclusive
between o/p=orpilli, there! the p/ph decay= orph=orphan. ok, so the founding christ myth,
at least its first greek version has orpheus coded as orphan.
remember we are talking oral tradition here and the memory had to be helped along by name cues, e.g., daidalos=ta(i)tli al/toc/s=tatli atoc(N)=daddy atl toco=touch water=drowned, yes, daedalus wasn’t drowned but the story is about that, let’s see, ic arus= ic/here arus alus alos al/toc/s= atoco(N)=drowned/touchwater, or, agathocles(gk)= aga/aua(N)toca(N)=almost a king
(aga), this was a servant who married his master’s wife and became king of sparta, but the
grandson murdered his father the king and disgraced the line.
…so, christ is vaudeville, entertainment, meaning, entre/between hold/tener(sp), yeah,
to hold us(he has the whole world in his hand, one more time))between their(church/kirk/circle)
fingers/fi(n)gures/pi(n)ch/piqui(N)=who picks(creates)/feign/feint, how piquant are the pixies
of religion, and i mean the various cutters/gotters/gutters of god. are they not? the rc church?
a disgrace. feigning to be eunuchs, their older sisters=pitli(N)/p(r)i(es)ts have broken their
vows repeatedly(is molestation really the promotion ladder to the papal throne?), not only
their vows but the meaning of the founding word for p(r)i(es)t=pitli(N)older sister, from,
pie(N/Lat)=no pick(piety). why, we’re human, they say. is ruining children’s lives part of
their vocation, or is it vacation? clearly they don’t understand logos, much less teotl/teo/theo/deo.
their god must be monopoly, as it is for evangelical quacks also, altho i hate to malign a
decent duck/tuck/toc/toca(N)=to sow(to-/our being/-ca).
the fact, unavoidable, that we get religion and language wrong at every turn in our hurrying
lowway(not highway)through life should tell us we have been given gifts we do not use for
the good of teotl/theother(E), or, ultimately, for ourselves on this shelve we call the blue
planet. if our holy books cannot manage us, it’s time to write new ones: the torah, the koran,
the bible…throw them all away, and let’s start a new page in the history of theocracy,
one that we all can read together, based on logos/tloc/location and teotl/theother,
as the promethean who gave the gifts of deity, fire, language, seeds, music, dance,
even wrestling, the greatest and humblest manager the world has ever seen, and
the most sucessful, neander/new man. it is time for new men/women to take again
the torch of life from those blowhards who would extinguish it. tks.
…torture is an old, old story to church-goers, a tale of love and gory glory. blood religions
get that way. think of all the christ-like bears, their skulls in caves, their bones scattered
around the first cross, the pine tree, their descent to earth from the big dipper. i don’t mean
the collection plate or oral roberts, jimmy swaggert, or tammy faye, who had a bad
marriage to elmer gantry. burt lancaster was great in that role. playing massai, the apache,
prepared him, whoever worked on the script of apache must have been a renegade christian
or a tex-mex with a black mother, for masai are ochre warriors of kenya,
and apache echoes mapache/racoon, mexiguana slang for thieving politician.
yes, indeed, a religion whose centerpiece is a torture scene, whose com-mutants
drink blood and chew body would look favorably on torture’s twist. it’s holy, you know,
they probably say to each other in blank awe. there are just some things we can’t
understand about god, the cutter’s mysterious ways, is another.
doesn’t anyone awake from their religious stupor and say: i believe i’ve had enough?
…flea, idol=toptli(N)=wrap, like ka-chi-na/beings-on top-4(hopi=tohopa(OE)=hope=toptli).
at gobekli(eden), 9k bc, toptli= t/tho(r)p(letra)= t/do(r)f(letra/tletl)= towns, i.e., the rise of
idolatry produced the policy=topilli(N)=police(my child) and the slaves=s(l)ave(letra)=
s/caua(N)=being/ca-ua/owners needed for public works to build the towns, e.g.,
the polish, g(r)odi= (tla) g/c(r)ot/d(tl)i(tletl/letra)= tlacotli(N)=slave, from, coua(N)=to buy,
also, dakota, and, (t)la(s)c o/u tx(letra)=lascoutx, why it’s my basque name!
so if god had his way, there wouldn’t be any towns or cities, but he did place his curse
on them with the word, shaman=xamani(N)=to shatter, destroy=chamitl(N)=brick=
chaminaua(N)=chimney, which produce soot/tzotl that we also use for ink to print
books, so the problem with the bible, the torah, the koran is that they are products
of the flue(pun), which is quite infectious and is capable of plagues of fervor/fever
that can wipe out broad swaths of us. how can we avoid this curse in cyberspace?
we’re not using soot/hollin(sp)/tzollin(N), but, ollin(N)=holy (m)o(ve)ment.tks
…an example of how blood religions work, from yahweh to chirst to allah, is what happened
yesterday when i answered roger cohen’s rabble-rousing article in the times called,
city of whispers(teheran), i congratulated him on his revolutionary zeal but pointed
out abjad controlled the army, that youth should be served but not a bucket of blood,
and ended by saying if the young rebels were to light the fire of revolution around the
cold hearth of iranian democracy, they should cut the wood first. the post went into
comments at 9:38, then i watched with delight as it went to the head of comments
on top of the first posting of 9:15, out of time sequence. however, when i checked
back at 1330, the first 9:15 post was there followed by the next post at 9:58, what?
they had taken my comment and the comments around it out. i was and am outraged
that they, an american newspaper just bailed out by a lebanese mexican billionaire,
carlos slim helú, would stoop so low as to put themselves stealthily forward as the midwives
to massacre in mideast iran, to have that agenda is yellow press in every sense of the
word, goes against the charter of dialogue that any newspaper should stand for, and,
i suggest they change their masthead motto, all the news that’s fit to print, to,
all the news that fits(our agenda). for what once was a fine newspaper to stoop so
low and to fall so far from grace is not only a sign of the times but a sign of desperation
for a clique of bridge-burners looking up their sleeves for trump.
So, you’re like some big ball of crazy pants?
…who me? yeah, i’m a clown, barnum never gave me an even break, i’ll defend anybody
except myself, because, i have better thing to do, i’m so important, the stars come out
to see me everynight, even when i’m cloudy, my real name’s tlalli, some call me blue,
and forget my last name’s planet, my beer-swilling german friends call me, urth, the
cossacks and kibbutzim call me, zem, and the greeks call me, gaia, because they think everybody is, ticks that they are, but i tell them, you can call me, ka. may the grace of
craziness lie lightly on your shoulders, as lightly as buzzard quills on me.
…if god is so powerful, so vast, so inventive, why do we need reincarnation? he can just keep
on creating new souls without end, not looking back, he’s the artist, as dylan would say.
or is this a selling point of blue planet, designed cunningly for the insufferable egos of the
faceful, who task their mirrors to the breaking point every day.
there is an asylum for cracked mirrors, a red brick building with ramparts and filled with dressers where face glass rest, will accomodate overextended wardrobe mirrors,
who recover quicker than handmirrors, an entire ward for bedeviled beveled mirrors,
and for those living in the past, the rear-view mirrors.
the attic of the slate-roofed building is the prism for the collapsible spyglasses
and the schizo-binoculars, who usually see eye-to eye on one thing,
and it’s never been the lord of hosts, who is beyond their vanishing point.
yes, the sales gimmicks of rare lichen have been growing on the rock of faith for quite
some time. they begin with the fire of necessity when a savior burns his way across
the sky or field where sheep shall pasture, scorch the living stone until it blossoms
like an old anchor with barnacles of moss, the flaming herbs which soothe an
itchy skin better left behind to hang on eve’s tree for what we want to know may
be unknowable of course for now, which was on the lip of then, and trumpets our tomorrow.
When you get at least 10% of all your attendees income, getting a mass quantity of grey legos is only a small line in the yearly tax deductions.
Oh come on. Legos are awesome and *always* age-appropriate. :)
It’s called fun. It has the same amount of point as making the USS Enterprise out of legos.
But… but the USS Entreprise exists! I’ve seen it on TV! ;-)
See…I never made the Enterprise out of Legos…I know they had an Enterprise Lego kit, but the Trekkie in me thought that that was just silly. Give me an actual model to build. Better yet, give me the actual model of the ship. Also, I never really cared for Legos…sacrilege!
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