# Jesus Exists **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914 "2005-07-17T23:32:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/1 "2005-07-17T23:32:02Z")
and as proof here is his picture in a [Peruvian sand dune](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-16.337013,-71.959763&spn=0.110893,0.158186&t=k&hl=en) ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/2 "2005-07-17T23:32:56Z")
I don’t know, that looks Photoshopped to me. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/3 "2005-07-17T23:34:28Z")
Jesus is the Phantom of the Opera? ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/4 "2005-07-17T23:35:30Z")
Even assuming it’s not photoshopped, why would it be specifically Jesus? Maybe it’s really Moses. Or Brian. Or that weird recluse living at the end of the block that everybody says is a child molester but maybe is just lonely. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/5 "2005-07-17T23:48:58Z")
I mean that’s just silly. God go to all the trouble of making the wind blow a sand dune into the face of Brian. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/6 "2005-07-17T23:54:05Z")
Looks more like Nixon to me. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/7 "2005-07-18T00:00:20Z")
I think it looks more like Gandalf. Do you happen to have a photograph of Jesus we can compare it to? ---
**Author:** ![cabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@cabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cabdude)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/8 "2005-07-18T00:07:49Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I think it looks more like Gandalf. > > Do you happen to have a photograph of Jesus we can compare it to? I had one but a hamster ate it. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/9 "2005-07-18T00:10:09Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I think it looks more like Gandalf. > > Do you happen to have a photograph of Jesus we can compare it to? How about [this one](http://shalomplace.com/res/image.html) or [this one](http://www.newspiritservices.com/jesus.html) or [this one](http://www.1heart.com/saibaba.html) or even [this one](http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/12/25/face.jesus/) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/10 "2005-07-18T00:13:31Z")
For it to be photoshopped, that would mean someone had to edit the image that resides on Google’s servers, but I agree; it does look sort of fake. The fact that it happens to appear in perfectly upright orientation is also cause to suspect it. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/11 "2005-07-18T00:14:14Z")
What is with that family? Dank freeway underpasses, toast, peruvian sand dunes… You’d think they’d get some better gigs. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/12 "2005-07-18T00:16:42Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > The fact that it happens to appear in perfectly upright orientation is also cause to suspect it. No doubt there’s plenty of face-like images on these maps that are not oriented that way, just nobody notices them. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/13 "2005-07-18T00:23:25Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > No doubt there’s plenty of face-like images on these maps that are not oriented that way, just nobody notices them. Of course, but I think they’d still be noticed if they were up to, say, 30 degrees off vertical either way; just seems a bit convenient that this one is so nearly vertical in orientation. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/14 "2005-07-18T00:26:56Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > How about [this one](http://shalomplace.com/res/image.html) > or [this one](http://www.newspiritservices.com/jesus.html) > or [this one](http://www.1heart.com/saibaba.html) > or even [this one](http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/12/25/face.jesus/) Ok, the image in the sand dune is definitely not him, then. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/15 "2005-07-18T00:33:29Z")
I was just going to say, before Mangetout mentioned…isn’t a great coincidence God decided to make this apparition appear so as to be oriented with Google’s satellite camera? It is pretty cool, though. I don’t think it’s photoshopped, but I agree that it looks more like Gandalf. ---
**Author:** ![Ainak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Ainak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ainak)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/16 "2005-07-18T01:05:33Z")
Help me out here. God paces around heaven pounding fist to palm, saying. . “I need something, something to make people believe. I need. . I need… . . Wait. I’ll swirl up some sand-dunes to look like my Son. . . Yes!. . .Bingo!” Is that sort of what they’re thinking here? (If I don’t respond to your e-mail, it’s just because I’ve been incinerated by a bolt of 1.25 gigavolts from above.) ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/17 "2005-07-18T01:33:41Z")
Darn Peru gets all the Jesus Dunes… _grumble grumble_ ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/18 "2005-07-18T01:37:12Z")
> [@Ainak](#): > > God paces around heaven pounding fist to palm, saying. . “I need something, something to make people believe. I need. . I need… . . Wait. I’ll swirl up some sand-dunes to look like my Son. . . Yes!. . .Bingo!” Yes, yes . . . in the middle of the Peruvian desert, where it can only be seen by satellite . . . :smack: No, no, that won’t work! I know! I’ll make his image appear on a [tortilla! No, on the side of a soybean oil tank! No, I’ve got it! A garage door!](http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/electronic-publications/stay-free/5/jesus.htm) ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/19 "2005-07-18T02:19:41Z")
Looks like Bin Laden. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914/20 "2005-07-18T02:35:27Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I think it looks more like Gandalf. > > Do you happen to have a photograph of Jesus we can compare it to? I was gonna say Aragorn, as portrayed by Viggo Mortensen. Should Viggo be Jesus, there would be a religion I could get behind. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jesus-exists/312914.md?page=2)