On a Lighter Note: Best Jesus Award

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I love the scene around the fire when he speaks about removing the splinter from someone else’s eye. It is said so naturally, almost with a sense of humor.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
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I don’t know that I have a go to image of Jesus in my head. He’s faceless in my thoughts. Is that weird? 🤨
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I wouldn’t call it weird, but a lot of us have grown up with some image of Jesus in our head, often from some favorite piece of art that we liked as a child or that our parents had in the house. Or from something we got attached to as adults, such as the Shroud of Turin or one of the Divine Mercy images.
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I do sometimes picture certain artistic representations. It depends on what I’m meditating on. It’s most often the Good Shepard these days.
 
By the way: I heard that the movie ‘Son of God’ (2014) was accused of being immodestly focused on the attractiveness of the actor chosen to play the Lord. Honestly, this sounds like a big Nothing Burger but is there any reality of disrespect happening there? I haven’t seen it and I’m curious but discriminating. 'Cause like seriously Robert Powell was most definitely easy on the eyes but it didn’t become inappropriately emphasized at all in Zeffirelli’s film. Haha…
 
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Too old? Jim Caviezel was about 33 when he made the film.
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I dunno, just seemed that way. Big Guy Mormon American man-next-door awkwardness. Hard to put into words. I felt that the man who played the Saint John the Apostle or the men who played the two criminals executed on each side of the cross would have been way more appropriate for the role. I’m tired of seeing Jesus played by men who look like bulky white American superheroes while everyone else actually looks Middle-Eastern people who eat plants and not hamburgers. And I’m not categorically against a white man playing Jesus, like Robert Powell, because he wasn’t embarrassingly cringe about it. They chose a cringe actor for the recent Mary of Nazareth movie and I was again like STAHP guys, please. Please stop choosing men who could be on the cover of a 1980s bodice ripper novel. EWW.
 
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I’d give my vote to Jonathan Roumie, who plays Jesus in The Chosen.
 
I have mixed feelings. I lean towards the Bible’s description (I can’t quote it, and don’t know the verse), which said something like, “There was nothing about his appearance that drew us to him.” The point, as I understand it, was that he just looked like an average guy.

Consequently, I prefer a more mundane looking Jesus, instead of a handsome guy with mysterious eyes.
 
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