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NeverEnding Trivialization

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Matt Stone

2009-01-17

Strange synchrinicity. I was watching The NeverEnding Story the other day with my kids and, what do you know, this evening I stumbled upon this: Falcor Jesus.

Not as derogatory as Zombie Jesus I suppose but still trivializes him.

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3 responses to “NeverEnding Trivialization”

John W. Morehead

2009-01-17

Interesting picture, Matt. I remember the movie well as an interesting piece of fantasy. But I wonder whether the zombie Jesus, particularly in the context of the Zombie Last Supper, is as disrespectful in all perspectives as we might think. I wrote on this on my other blog a while back. The image can be helpfully thought provoking:
http://www.theofantastique.com/2007/10/18/reflections-on-a-zombie-supper/
And while many may mean disrespect or superficial pop culture play through the zombie Jesus, it is not hard to connect the dots on non-Christian thinking on this:
http://www.theofantastique.com/2008/10/13/philly-zombie-crawl-and-zombie-jesus/
Perhaps even with such troubling imagery we might be asking what this says back to the church.

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John W. Morehead

2011-01-02

And the latest in the zombie Jesus canon: http://www.theofantastique.com/2010/12/27/catholic-theologian-rejects-zombie-jesus/

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Matt Stone

2011-01-09

Ta, thanks for the heads up

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