Tattooed Jesus on Texas Billboard Has Residents Talking

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/10/tattooed-jesus-on-texas-billboard-has-residents-talking/


A billboard showing a tattooed Jesus is West Lubbock, Texas, has got people talking. (Credit: KAMC/ABC News)

By Barbara Schmitt
Oct 9, 2013 5:31pm

A billboard showing a tattooed Jesus Christ has stirred up quite a bit of buzz in the heart of the Bible Belt.

The ad, which is the work of the website Jesustattoo.org, popped up along a West Lubbock, Texas, highway, and it’s got people talking. It shows a man, ostensibly Jesus Christ, with outstretched arms tattooed with such words as “Outcast,” “Addicted, “Jealous.”

“I don’t like the picture. I think it’s very derogatory,” a local-area resident told the CBS affiliate KEYE-TV.

On the website, a video casts Jesus as a tattoo artist and shows several tattooed individuals approaching him to reveal their sinful markings. A woman with “Self Righteous” tattooed on her chest and a young disabled boy with the word “Outcast” tattooed on his body come forward.

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[cleanhippie]

1. Yet another example of humans making their god in their own image.

Not the other way around.

[rug]

2. That site has a video.

It states a conventional evangelical message in a striking, unconventional metaphor.

[cbayer]

3. Very interesting concept.

Their target audience is very interesting as well.

[rug]

4. It would have been better, though, if they just stopped it at 3:30.

A picture is worth a thousand words.