As you can imagine, the pictures range from the classic to the classically stupid. Examples:
Slam-dunking a goal in a yellow Los Angeles Lakers uniform.
A reverent painting of Jesus offering bread and wine.
Twin faces of Christ as earrings, his hair studded with diamonds.
A Rasta-locked Lord on a shoulder tattoo.
A cartoon Jesus surfing on a cross.
And assorted Jesus faces on light switches, bandages, sticky notes, black velvet, and of course airbrushed onto vans and motorcycles. And on and on.
You submit the picture -- or someone out there does -- and the Village Voice editors add what they consider witty comments. Like the suggestion that a sitting statue, with hand to the side of his head, looks like he's talking on an iPhone. Tee-hee.
What to make of this site? One lesson: Culture can get pretty silly, even with revered figures. Two: Ridiculing the sacred is funny, at least for some mentalities.
Conclusion three: Ignorance is no handicap online. Whoever wrote the snickering paragraph for a crucifixion painting totally missed that the artist was Salvador Dali.
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