Reply To: It's Fascinating the Places I Discover Evidence For Evolution

[Strega]

Hi @trexdgr I hope you’re feeling a ton better.

The Jesus character gets everywhere when you least expect it. My (atheist) mum passed away earlier this year and my (atheist) brother went to view the body with his (lapsed-ish catholic) wife. Not for me, I prefer my memories to be of her living, but I understand it’s of help to some. His wife told me with some cheer, that there was a huge painting of Jesus in the room where she was laid out, and that she thought it was “rather comforting”.

I told her I found it rather offensive, as the area of London where she lived was very multi-ethnic, and that it was immensely presumptuous for the funeral parlor to decide Christianity should adorn the wall. What if they were Jewish corpses. Hindu ones, Sikhs, etc. etc. She reluctantly agreed with me, although I suppose I might have rained on her parade a bit with hindsight.

My most incongruous encounter with the mythical blue-eyed Jesus character left me creased up laughing. We were on the road from Vermont, headed to Boston on the Mass pike, and hit a traffic hitch. We pulled off the road to a small service station, and I went to use the unisex rest room. So tiny that you had to open the door fully in order to squeeze in and close it behind you before you could sit down.

Imagine my delight when I closed the door and took the throne, to discover a monumentally huge painting of the blue-eyed man on the inside of the door. Jesus watches people pee, all day long! Fantastic!