Monday, December 8, 2008

Is Dressing Up Jesus Blasphamey?

I guess the title of this blog raises some questions, like, is asking this question blasphemous? But that's not what we are he to delve into, we are here to discuss the cultural and satist world of dressing up Jesus.

If you are so inclined, you to can go to http://www.jesusdressup.com/ and partake in the ever addicting and strangely arousing time passer of literally clicking and dragging clothing onto a crucified Jesus. In fact, just minutes ago I had him dressed up as the Grinch, realzing the irony in that, I changed it to Superman and then hung a nice little sign over his head that read, "Just Hanging Around."

I know what you're thinking...that's disusting, wrong, awful, unbelievable, Jesus would never wear a Grinch costume, Superman is a homo (not that anything is wrong with that), etc. I don't necessarily disagree to be honest. I mean, really, if Jesus Christ is really the Son of God, then dressing him up in funny clothing (don't get me started on the BDSM page) is really a bad idea.

So, the original question: Is Dressing Up Jesus Blaspahmey? Well, yes and no, I mean saying God Damn is blasphamous, or slandering the Good Lord's name, like saying, "JC was a hermaphodite" would be blasphamous, I guess. But, this wonderful little tool of a website doesn't say anything wrong, or even do anything wrong, it just gives you the opportunity to see Jesus in various levels of fashion. I don't think dressing Jesus up as the Easter Bunny is really that bad...I mean, didn't the Easter Bunny find out for everyone that Jesus had creepily snuck out of his tomb? You know, when he was stopping by to drop off his basket of candy and creme/nougat filled chocolate eggs?

Then again, what if it's not blasphamous because the Holy Trinity has one hell of a sense of humor...like quite self-depricating? You know? Think about it, if you could see yourself dressed up like Snow White, wouldn't you laugh? We all know that God has a sense of humor, havent you ever seen the monkey video telling the story about blowing the seal? Or the midget show on TLC? If that isn't proof positive of both the existence of God and sense of humor of God, not sure what is...but...

What if God DOESN'T have a sense of humor, and actually gets really pissed when you dress up his son with a gas mask and nipple clips? Then, upon our demise we are really in for some punishment...I mean, if I was inclined to get pissed at stuff like this, you know people poking fun of my sons fasion, or his untimely death at the hand of a Jew named Pontius, when I met the Son of a Bitch (that is NOT a reference to Jesus) who was poking the fun I would most likely damn them to Hell for all of enternity dressed as a cheap sex doll or Larry King.

My guess is that we haven't accomplished anything in this post and knowing the answer to the question of putting Jesus in the coat from Jesus Christ Superstar and its relationship to blasphamey may go unknown...unless of course, the Big Man wants to send us a sign, like the ability to dress him up like Sarah Palin just so we know.

2 comments:

TommyMac71 said...

I would say something about you being sick, demented and disturbed but then again I'm the one who introduced you to that website.....

If the religious store sells figures of Jesus touching little children on the baseball/football/soccer field, I wouldn't think dressing Jesus as the Pink Panther is such a big deal.

J. said...

Is dressing up Jesus blasphemy? Not if you're not a Christian. Frankly, covering the poor guy up is the least we can do, though I worry about all that blood getting all over the nice outfits.