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Lord Salem đź‘‘
@5thCenturyStoic
Reality is under no obligation to make sense but I still ask questions... And I code.
Jul 27 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
An Ugly Blasphemous Graffito of Jesus—My Favorite Picture of Jesus

It’s crude. It’s looks as though some bored kid doodled on a school desk.
It’s a mockery. A smear. Literally an ancient meme meant to humiliate.
And yet, I love it. Deeply in fact.

The Alexamenos graffito is.... Image not a prestigious stained-glass Jesus.
It’s not the gentle shepherd, halo aglow Jesus.
This Jesus has the head of a donkey and hangs bare on a cross.
Ugly. Ridiculous. Offensive.
Precisely what the Roman Empire thought of the gospel.

But that’s what makes it powerful...