Ah, that was on Conan O’Brien; they made up their own statues and of course I don’t remember any of them. I think it’s a neat idea actually, I mean, there are worse role models than Jesus. Like priests.
Cheap shot, I apologise.
I think they’re kitschy-cool–a better “investment” than collecting souvenir city spoons (maybe).
A semi-popular talk show in the US bought a couple of these, on the basis that they had to be seen to be believed. They’re even odder in three dimensions. In the skiing one, he’s wearing sandles with skis attatched; apparently frostbute is no threat.
This made it into my local paper this week. The editors unkindly suggested Jesus may be unfairly using his height advantage to tease the kids in that basketball game.
I love the football statue, mostly because one poor kid is trying to tackle Jesus. I wonder how he got that assignment? I can imagine the conversation in the defensive huddle:
All right, Timmy, you cover Bobby; Jimmy, you cover Dylan; Tony, you cover Ron; I’ll drop back as a safety…and Markie, if they hand off to the Lord again, you try to nail him in the backfield. OK? Break!
I just wonder why Jesus insists on wearing that white robe. I imagine it would get dirty really quickly on a football field, and wouldn’t his skates catch on it while playing hockey? And talk about track and field… I can just picture the difficulties Jesus would have retaining his dignity trying to pole vault in that thing.
And you do notice that he doesn’t wear any protection, don’t you? No helmets, no kneepads, nothing. Sure, he’s probably got the Divine Invisible All-Purpose Anti-Accident kit or something, but I think he’s just setting a bad example.