Colombia builds tallest Jesus statue in Americas

[Cartoonist]

colombiareports.co/colombia-builds-tallest-jesus-statue-americas/

Jesus not in everyone’s heart

Not everybody is as enthusiastic however. Locals have sued the state government’s contribution to the project for not respecting the separation of church and state.

The local government’s lawyers refuted the allegations by claiming that the gigantic sculpture of a young man with a beard, wrapped in a robe is in fact not the Christian Messiah, but “an abstract figure, unique and at the same time universal for all creeds and persuasions”, which features “christian, buddhist, hindu, pagan, egyptian and pre-hispanic iconography.”
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He sure looks like the Jesus I was taught to worship.

[corkhead]

1. Bigger than Big Butter Jesus?

[edhopper]

2. There are a lot of

Big freaken statues of Jesus around.

http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/02/the-tallest-statues-of-jesus-christ-in.html

[bvf]

3. That's some big-ass Jesus. n/t.

[cbayer]

4. Here is your link and an image:

http://colombiareports.co/colombia-builds-tallest-jesus-statue-americas/


Photo: el frente

It's bigger than the one in Rio and they hope it will attract a lot of tourism.