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Dress up Jesus

Wildly funny
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Mildly amusing
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Booooring ... yawn.
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Maybe just a bit, oh, I don't know, offputting.
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Offensive
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Heresy, you need to burn for this
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Bonobos.
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Postby Olthar » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:35 pm

I'm honestly shocked that people are finding this offensive. It's just a stupid dress up game. There's nothing worth getting offended over. I'm sure you've got better things to do with your time and energy.
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Postby Liberated Counties » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:36 pm

Diopolis wrote:
DogDoo 7 wrote:The whole Jesus thing is weird though. Like why does he actually have to be God? Can't he just be a respected prophet? I could take Christians much more seriously if this were the case.

He's not a god, He is God. Well, the personification of God.


So, technically his mother is also his one night stand?
Creepy.

I find this mildly amusing now it works :p
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Postby Miyager » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:37 pm

Olthar wrote:I'm honestly shocked that people are finding this offensive. It's just a stupid dress up game. There's nothing worth getting offended over. I'm sure you've got better things to do with your time and energy.


I'm not offended. I think it's pretty stupid though.
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Postby Erucia » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:38 pm

Aeribis wrote:
Hvergelmir wrote:It's boring. There are much better ways to poke fun at the Judeo-Christian god.



Why are you referring to Jesus as a prophet if you're a Christian? Only Muslims think that.


Actually, Christians believe him as a prophet as well as the Son of God.
I got a small giggle when I first saw it, but, if I'm being completely honest, I feel it's disrespectful to the Christians. All for jokes made against them, but this is kinda crossing a line. If he wasn't crucified, I wouldn't say anything, but come on guys.

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It comes down to that it can't be disrespectful. I'd be fine if it was just "Dress Jesus up in Wacky Costumes!", but the fact that he's nailed to a cross is a bit much.

Sorta the same with the Muhammad Dress-Up I saw on the same site, only that's outright disrespectful just for showing him.
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Postby The Serbian Empire » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:38 pm

Mildly offensive to some and boring. Yawn...
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Postby Hvergelmir » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:39 pm

Aeribis wrote:
Hvergelmir wrote:It's boring. There are much better ways to poke fun at the Judeo-Christian god.



Why are you referring to Jesus as a prophet if you're a Christian? Only Muslims think that.


Actually, Christians believe him as a prophet as well as the Son of God.
I got a small giggle when I first saw it, but, if I'm being completely honest, I feel it's disrespectful to the Christians. All for jokes made against them, but this is kinda crossing a line. If he wasn't crucified, I wouldn't say anything, but come on guys.

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A prophet is defined as a person who speaks for God or a deity by divine inspiration. I think it is quite silly for God to send his own son as a prophet, but I suppose you could consider Jesus Christ to be a prophet in addition to the Son of God. In any case, I don't see why people find this offensive.
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Postby Erucia » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:40 pm

Hvergelmir wrote:A prophet is defined as a person who speaks for God or a deity by divine inspiration. I think it is quite silly for God to send his own son as a prophet, but I suppose you could consider Jesus Christ to be a prophet in addition to the Son of God. In any case, I don't see why people find this offensive. It's not like they're playing dress-up with the prophet Muhammad or anything.

*Cough-Cough* Dress-Up Muhammad.
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Postby Aldheim » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:40 pm

I don't really find it funny or offensive
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Postby Regnum Dominae » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:40 pm

Erucia wrote:
Hvergelmir wrote:A prophet is defined as a person who speaks for God or a deity by divine inspiration. I think it is quite silly for God to send his own son as a prophet, but I suppose you could consider Jesus Christ to be a prophet in addition to the Son of God. In any case, I don't see why people find this offensive. It's not like they're playing dress-up with the prophet Muhammad or anything.

*Cough-Cough* Dress-Up Muhammad.

Nothing wrong with that either.
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Postby Hvergelmir » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:41 pm

Erucia wrote:
Hvergelmir wrote:A prophet is defined as a person who speaks for God or a deity by divine inspiration. I think it is quite silly for God to send his own son as a prophet, but I suppose you could consider Jesus Christ to be a prophet in addition to the Son of God. In any case, I don't see why people find this offensive. It's not like they're playing dress-up with the prophet Muhammad or anything.

*Cough-Cough* Dress-Up Muhammad.


Take note of how I edited my response before you posted this.
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Thus pride, that most insidious illness on all earth, once again has taken its prey. Which one might be the failure, he who left with a lowered shield and sword held high or he who has to dig the graves?

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Postby Thafoo » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:42 pm

I don't find it offensive, but I can see how it can be offensive. It's boring, too.

By that, I mean, it doesn't offend me. I see how it offends others, though.
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Postby Erucia » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:42 pm

Hvergelmir wrote:
Erucia wrote:*Cough-Cough* Dress-Up Muhammad.


Take note of how I edited my response before you posted this.

Didn't see, sorry.


Regnum Dominae wrote:
Erucia wrote:*Cough-Cough* Dress-Up Muhammad.

Nothing wrong with that either.

Actually, since Islam dictates that Muhammad may not be shown, that is actually offensive (at least to Muslims).
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Postby Olthar » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:43 pm

Miyager wrote:
Olthar wrote:I'm honestly shocked that people are finding this offensive. It's just a stupid dress up game. There's nothing worth getting offended over. I'm sure you've got better things to do with your time and energy.


I'm not offended. I think it's pretty stupid though.

If you aren't among the offended, then I'm not talking to you.
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Postby Erucia » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:47 pm

Olthar wrote:
Miyager wrote:
I'm not offended. I think it's pretty stupid though.

If you aren't among the offended, then I'm not talking to you.

Well, as someone who is offended at it, it's all really an issue of what someone's beliefs are. For someone who really doesn't give two biscuits about Jesus, then sure, it makes sense. But for someone who would consider someone a prophet and the son of God, to then see that prophet to be nailed to a cross and then dressed in a disco outfit?

Yeah, that's the line crossed.
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Postby Meryuma » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:14 pm

Just kinda immature more than anything.
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Postby Occupied Deutschland » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:17 pm

Funny in the same way poop jokes are funny, but not to as great an extent.

I want to see the Moses and Mohammed versions as well though.

Edit: Ohholycrapthere'saMohammedversion!
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Postby Ainin » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:25 pm

I dunno, putting an afro on Jesus was worth it, but not really funny. Offensive? To some Christians, maybe.

IMO, it's neither funny nor offensive.
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Postby Cashewbutter » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:26 pm

I'm neither offended nor entertained by it. Electronic paper dolls, yawn. It's a little disrespectful, I guess, but if I got offended every time someone did or said something that's disrespectful to someone else, I'd be walking around with a constant scowl.

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Postby Vazdania » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:28 pm

Imsogone wrote:This hasn't been posted here in ... years, possibly not since Jolt. Anyway, I'm posting it as a form of, oh, test, I guess. That's not really the right word for it, but nothing better comes to mind.

The first time I saw this, I thought it was hysterically funny, as I got a bit older, I decided it was mildly amusing, now I think it's sort of meh.

I guess I really just want to know how you feel about it ... amused, bored, offended.

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I find this kind of offensive...
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Postby Cetacea » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:30 pm

Olthar wrote:I'm honestly shocked that people are finding this offensive. It's just a stupid dress up game. There's nothing worth getting offended over. I'm sure you've got better things to do with your time and energy.


Even removing the Jesus association it is the depiction of a dead and tortured man being used as a crass dress me up game which even includes a strap on dildo.

If it was a hanging black man or a jew in a gas chamber would you still be shocked if I found it offensively stupid
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Postby Baptist Korea » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:31 pm

To be honest, I found this hilarious at first and then completely ad totally offensive. Then both at the same tide.
While I am Christian, I doubt Jesus would be offended by this. Just putting that out there.

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Postby Valentir » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:33 pm

Not really offensive. Maybe a little bit rude but overall dull, boring, and just plain a waste of time.


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Postby The Tectonic Plates » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:35 pm

Occupied Deutschland wrote:Funny in the same way poop jokes are funny, but not to as great an extent.

I want to see the Moses and Mohammed versions as well though.

Edit: Ohholycrapthere'saMohammedversion!


This isn't very well known, I doubt it'll start a shitfest.

I hope it doesn't start a shitfest.
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Postby Grenartia » Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:36 pm

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Imsogone wrote:This hasn't been posted here in ... years, possibly not since Jolt. Anyway, I'm posting it as a form of, oh, test, I guess. That's not really the right word for it, but nothing better comes to mind.

The first time I saw this, I thought it was hysterically funny, as I got a bit older, I decided it was mildly amusing, now I think it's sort of meh.

I guess I really just want to know how you feel about it ... amused, bored, offended.

http://www.jesusdressup.com/

I'm not necessarily offended by it, but I don't really see how just about anyone could find this amusing.


This, really, though it might be because I'm a Christian. Again, not offended, but just not amused. Though I did find it interesting that one could dress Jesus up as Kurt Cobain...
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