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Rough stuff for a Friday afternoon, man. Now I have to find some good to do.
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Well, yah, because he was brown (if he was even a real person, which the evidence for isn’t great).
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Well, I rapped upon a house
With the U.S. flag upon display
I said, “Could you help me out
I got some friends down the way”
The man says, “Get out of here
I’ll tear you limb from limb”
I said, “You know they refused Jesus, too”
He said, “You’re not Him
Get out of here before I break your bones
I ain’t your pop”
I decided to have him arrested
And I went looking for a cop
-Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream, Bob Dylan
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Other than naming the sculpture that, what makes this Jesus? Or am I overthinking things?
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“His face and hands are obscured, hidden under a blanket, but crucifixion wounds on his feet reveal his identity.”
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Gonna go out on a limb here and say it’s the wounds on the feet. 
eta did not notice @teknocholer beat me to it.
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You owe me a Tab, before they’re all gone.
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If we’re going with songs about the Jesus many christians ignore I need to add:
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Topics covered by Iron Maiden:
Edgar Allen Poe
End of the Roman Republic
Mongolian Empire
Viking invasions
Stigmatization of sex workers
Distopian authoritarianism
Occult Satanism
Native American Genocide
Hubris of man vis a vis Greek mythology
Battle of Balaclava & Tennyson
Evolution of humankind in re: making fire
Frank Herbert’s Dune
Battle of Britain
Nuclear Holocaust
Proper fencing technique
Ancient Egyptian polytheism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Greek expansion into the Indian Subcontinent
Also: ESP, Orson Scott Card, British banking scandals, AIDS, football hooligans, [skipping the Blaze Bayley years because obvs], Roman anti-Celtic propaganda, the Cathar Crusade, WWI Battle of Paschendale, Ingmar Bergman, the Iraq War, the Great Recession, rigid airships, and Robin fucking Williams.
Topics covered by literally every christian artist ever:
Jesus
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Not a fair comparison, but I am a huge Iron Maiden fan and running down your list was great fun. Christian songs of whatever genre are, by nature, pretty much one topic. I picked this one because it reflected the problems with the current evangelical movement, who seem to have moved to thinking the Pharisees are the good guys in the story, and Jesus is a commie radical that we are well rid of.
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Not to mention Jewish.
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Oh no!
Softball coaches the world over will die of dehydration now!
(I only say that because the only people I’ve ever known to really drink tab are female softball coaches [yes more than one, and they don’t know each other!])
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You’re at a dance at the high school gym
You’re dancing with her but you’re thinking of Him
He’s watching you, yeah
Jesus was a teenager too
When you’re at the drag strip, you better race fair
You’re not alone; Big Jesus is there
Yeah He’s timing you
Jesus was a teenager too
Now the Virgin Mary was quite a prude
Till she met God, then she was screwed
But remember that Mary
Was a teenager too.
–from memory
–chords: G-Em-C-D turnaround
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Well, he was sent to earth as a divine sacrifice to his all-powerful-self because he made the rules about sin too harsh and apparently wasn’t powerful enough to just change his own rules. And not all-knowing enough when he originally created those rules to know he’d change his mind about the wages of sin being death. And once he’d killed himself he now has the ability to change his own rules he created about what he does with sinners he created and intentionally made sinful.
If the romans didn’t kill him, then his “divine plan” couldn’t have worked.
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