Jesus is blonde...

[Maddy McCall]

and pretty damned hot.



Les Cheveldayoff has been portraying Jesus Christ
at The Holy Land Experience for three years. Twice
daily he performs The Ministry of Jesus at the
Qumran Cave Stage.



This guy who plays Jesus at the Holy Land park, named Les Cheveldayoff, was just interviewed on CNN. He's much more blonde now than in these photos...and he's blue-eyed (and, honestly, stunningly handsome).

I'm glad that Holy Land theme park is making sure to provide an historically accurate depiction of Christ for the people who go there.

[Buck Turgidson]

1. And the roof of that stable is made from 2 x 6's

tres' authentique!

[ClintonTyree]

2. And no sack cloth for jesus.....

only the finest cotton and velvet robes will do in this authentic recreation. :eyes: Yet gullible fools eat this stuff up with a spoon.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Wow Jesus has a microphone.

But does he have two turntables?

[Maddy McCall]

4. !!!

:spray:

:rofl:

Consider yourself DUzy nominated.

:rofl:

[Ian David]

7. He needs a microphone, or else peope will hear, "Blessed are the cheesemakers." n/t

[RC]

11. How many of the true believers comprehend,

"Blessed are the Peacemakers"?
His teaching kinda get glossed over in favor of their revengeful god of the Old Testament.

[helderheid]

32. !!!!!!!!

:spray: :rofl: :yourock: :rofl:

[johnfunk]

33. DJ Son o'God!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go turn wine into water...

[monmouth]

5. L'Oreal, Ash Blonde #10

[Ian David]

6. At least he's not an internet porn star like the guy who plays Adam at The Creationist Museum. n/t

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. What is this, Six Flags Over Galilee?

:eyes:

[NuttyFluffers]

9. i like my jesus in superman t-shirts and rainbow suspenders

[knitter4democracy]

10. Pretty sure he didn't wear Teva sandals, either.

If they'd check the oldest icons, that guy looks nothing like Jesus. *sigh* Then again, they'd probably say the oldest icons come from the wrong church.

[Heidi]

12. And it looks like the other guy is wearing faux Birkies.

:yoiks:

[Heidi]

13. "Jesus does not sign autographs . . . the Messiah does not pose for photos."

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/accent/content/accent/local/holy_land.html

[warrior1]

14. A picture of the real Jesus

Sorry, I don't believe he existed.

[Heidi]

16. While I dunno whether he existed,

I don't necessarily disrespect those who are convinced of it.

Unless someone is attempting to shape public policy around unmeasured or provably wrong assertions (like many fundamentalists have influenced public policy around their unproven and measureably false belief that homosexuals are immoral and therefore must be discriminated against under the law), I don't care too much what others believe. :shrug:

[Richard Steele]

31. Would you accept a "composite reconstruction of an average 1st-century palestinian male", then?

Someone did that a few years ago:

[Benhurst]

18. With an attitude like that, he's not going to have many fans.

[Heidi]

20. He's also not going to be able to hit the convention circuit when his Jesus gig hits the skids.

Wait. Now I'm starting to feel sorry for the guy.

[rucky]

15. It's an accurate portrayl.

I know this from historic portraits of Jesus painted on black velvet.

[Heidi]

19. If that's your area of expertise, I have a question.

Can dogs really play poker?

[zanne]

26. ROFL!

:spank:

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

17. I used to live less than a mile from that place....

but I never actually went there.

[fwiff]

21. Is this the park where he's crucified 6 times a week?

And has 'saved' their profits?

[Golden Raisin]

22. And speaks American English too!

All these fundie's heads would explode if they ever connected the dots and realized that their blonde, blue-eyed, American English-speaking Jay-zus probably looked a hell of a lot more like Osama Bin Laden or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

[UTUSN]

23. & dazzlingly white robes!!1 Fab?!!1 Cheer?!!1 Tide?!!1 n/t

[zanne]

24. I always thought he was a strawberry blond.

All the Jesus books I've ever seen have him pegged blue-eyed, with auburn hair.

[timtom]

25. Actually, "blonde" makes him a woman.

"Blond" is for men.

I'm sorry. I don't do this because I want to. I am compelled by forces I cannot withstand.

[Heidi]

28. Not that there's anything _wrong_ with that.

:rofl:

[Sal Minella]

30. I understand.

I was born a proofreader and I extend my sympathy to you.
People think I look for errors, but I don't -- they just hit me in the face like a brick.

[truedelphi]

27. I'm outraged. As we feminists now know, Jesus was a woman!!

But *his*tory keeps us all down. (Whether blonde or not - who can say??)

Attila the Hun was a female too - otherwise it would have been AttilO the Hun!!

[kenny blankenship]

29. Well that's just good marketing. Would you still love Jesus if he looked like this?

He probably did. Or at least much more like that than this:

[Bombtrack]

34. Although I think Jesus is completely made up (there wasn't even a mortal he was based on)

He would have been, according to 99 percent of historians, more Tony Shalhoub than Steven Weber.

[blogslut]

35. It's your fault

Because of this post, I went and looked up teh Jesuses on teh IMDB and got stuck on Jeffrey Hunter. I read his bio and became very sad. He died so young. He was my first movie Jesus. :(

[BlooInBloo]

36. Jesus looks like whatever certain Americans say he does.

[terrya]

37. It's Surfer Jesus!

Man, he is hot. Nice tan, there...

[xfundy]

39. Surfin' Jesus?

[La Coliniere]

38. Nice highlights!

Jesus was a Breck Girl! Does he or doesn't he?

[Az]

40. Comparisons have been made

And I expect it is particularly disconcerting when I am debating religion with someone that imagines Jesus being blond.

[camero]

41. Swedish Jesus

Who'da thought.