"Get me the artist who paints Jesus for nursing homes."

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/718264811327459330

[surrealAmerican]

1. I like how the text looks like a slinky in his hands.

This calls for some photoshopping.

[jberryhill]

2. Dan Lacey, Painter of Pancakes

I think Lacey works will be worth something someday. He charges, like, $125 a canvas now and does a good trade in prints.

[spanone]

3. this proves how far down the shit hole conservatives truly are....

'shrewd and effective' my ass

[AxionExcel]

4. Do not Cruzify America on a cross of perverted Christianity.

I'm totally down (and up) with authentic Christianity as exemplified by the charity, mercy and compassion of the Christ Spirit. But the fear-saturated, vengeful, materialistic, hate-spewing version of 'Christianity' espoused and practiced by so many people is a gross distortion and perversion of Christ's actual example of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless and driving the usurious Money Changers (R) - like Goldman Sachs where Heidi Cruz is amply compensated - from the Temple



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[Paladin]

5. Well put. (nt)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. The Jefferson 'quote' is out of context & Jefferson meant something different from the bare 'quote'.

[Odin2005]

8. Par for the course for militant Atheists.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Not really. . . nt

[AxionExcel]

10. Well whatever Jefferson meant you'll have to fill in, but I know what I meant

There are a lot of folks who are perverting the good word and merciful message of Christ. Only a few of them wear hoods.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Ok, I think your sense of the quote is closer to Jefferson than most people's

When it is said that something "is perverted", most people think that it means it was born corrupt and obscene.

Jefferson meant that christianity has been perverted, corrupted after its inception, by many people who pretend to speak for Jesus, starting with Paul. It seems that you may agree with this view and see Cruz (and probably his preacher father too) as one of the perverters of the religion. Dominionists in particular have a very corrupt vision of christianity's role.

"Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy — the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man — endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame."

-- Letter to Dr. Joseph Priestley (21 March 1801); published in The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1871) by Henry Stephens Randall, Vol. 2, p. 644; this seems to be the source of a misleading abbreviation: "[Christianity is] the most … perverted system that ever shone on man".

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson#First_Presidential_Administration_.281801-1805.29

[rusty fender]

6. Boom!

[dembotoz]

12. does it come on velvet?

go next to the elvis and the dogs playing poker

[Initech]

13. Did the same guy also paint Dogs Playing Poker?

[MrMickeysMom]

14. It helps to watch this to get it right...