Homeless Jesus

[JesusMyFriend]

The mockeries are the thousands of years of portraying him as a well off white man and turning the supposed day of his birthday into a massive spending orgy induced by the demands to buy gifts for people. Jesus was poor and lived in poverty. He also wasn't too fond of having more than you need.

I was about to post my own opinion but then I saw you had already echoed my thoughts. This is exactly what I think.. and find that statue beautiful because Jesus was a poor man himself and is always more present in those that are marginalized by society.(aka the poor)...

 

[Augustus]

Please explain the ritual.

In some places, pagans who had been forcibly converted tried to "unbaptise" themselves by jumping back into the river once the Christians had left

 

[Jainarayan]

Are you talking about 'Christianity' or are you talking about Christ?

Did I not say Christianity?

Jesus is not the only one who said what he said. In fact, Krishna said it 1,000 years before in the Bhagavad Gita. It's not a matter of what's "pleasing" to God, it's what will get you closer to God. The fire-and-brimstone is a crock of male bovine barnyard effluvium; metaphors and parables twisted to exert control.

 

[Nakosis]

Schmalz, who says the piece took him eight months to complete, explains that the purpose of the life-size bronze sculpture is to “raise awareness of the marginalized, challenge and inspire society to be more compassionate and charitable, and to act upon that inspiration.” He also hopes it will, “lift the spirits of the marginalized so that they might see Christ within themselves.”

The idea came to him, he says, when he saw a homeless person on the crowded streets of Toronto.

“When you see the most marginalized people, the Christian idea is that you’re seeing Jesus,” Schmalz says.

“I think that the statue does what good art always does,” Moore says. “It inspires conversation and it draws us beyond ourselves. In the case of this particular statue, I hope that people leave with a sense that every human interaction is a holy interaction. There is no such thing as ‘just a homeless person.’ … We are excited for the conversation we hope Homeless Jesus will inspire in our congregation, our city, and beyond.”

Art “has an amazing power to bring awareness to problems in everyday life. Hopefully this sculpture will do the same,” Schmalz says.
http://college.usatoday.com/2015/02...ss-jesus-sculpture-coming-to-more-u-s-cities/

 

[PruePhillip]

Schmalz, who says the piece took him eight months to complete, explains that the purpose of the life-size bronze sculpture is to “raise awareness of the marginalized, challenge and inspire society to be more compassionate and charitable, and to act upon that inspiration.” He also hopes it will, “lift the spirits of the marginalized so that they might see Christ within themselves.”

The idea came to him, he says, when he saw a homeless person on the crowded streets of Toronto.

“When you see the most marginalized people, the Christian idea is that you’re seeing Jesus,” Schmalz says.

“I think that the statue does what good art always does,” Moore says. “It inspires conversation and it draws us beyond ourselves. In the case of this particular statue, I hope that people leave with a sense that every human interaction is a holy interaction. There is no such thing as ‘just a homeless person.’ … We are excited for the conversation we hope Homeless Jesus will inspire in our congregation, our city, and beyond.”

Art “has an amazing power to bring awareness to problems in everyday life. Hopefully this sculpture will do the same,” Schmalz says.
http://college.usatoday.com/2015/02...ss-jesus-sculpture-coming-to-more-u-s-cities/

That's all good. But it isn't the the whole story of who Jesus was or why He came.
Indeed, many of the people who rejected him were poor (Jesus said some came to Him because they were fed, nothing else)
And many who loved Jesus were rich - Nicodemus, the Centurion, Levi, Mary and Martha (note the $65k alabaster box) Paul etc. Many others had businesses, such as Peter, John, James etc..)
Some want the Messiah to be some sort of social security guy. If that was God's only intent then there wouldn't have been poor in the first place.

 

[Nakosis]

That's all good. But it isn't the the whole story of who Jesus was or why He came.
Indeed, many of the people who rejected him were poor (Jesus said some came to Him because they were fed, nothing else)
And many who loved Jesus were rich - Nicodemus, the Centurion, Levi, Mary and Martha (note the $65k alabaster box) Paul etc. Many others had businesses, such as Peter, John, James etc..)
Some want the Messiah to be some sort of social security guy. If that was God's only intent then there wouldn't have been poor in the first place.

Jesus started out homeless, being born in a manger and ended life homeless...

Matt 8:20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Jesus was a beggar, a homeless man claiming to be the son of God. I doubt few if any would take such a man seriously today.

 

[Spiderman]

Jesus started out homeless, being born in a manger and ended life homeless...

Matt 8:20 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

Jesus was a beggar, a homeless man claiming to be the son of God. I doubt few if any would take such a man seriously today.

John the Baptist was unemployed, lived in the woods, and ate locusts and wild honey.

No one would take him seriously today. But a psychiatrist would be interested in meeting with him.

 

[Nakosis]

John the Baptist was unemployed, lived in the woods, and ate locusts and wild honey.

No one would take him seriously today. But a psychiatrist would be interested in meeting with him.

Jesus cause folks to rethink what they had before accepted as truth. Maybe wealth/power is not the ultimate goal. The poor, lame, destitute, thieving, deplorable folks, are as worthy as any before God.