So, apparently, Trump has posted another image of himself with an alleged “Jesus” (see bottom right in attached image), and everyone is going bonkers about it, claiming blasphemy, offence, outrage, etc. That is by no means the first, or the second, or the third image, or the many others depicting a similar scene! In fact, there is a very large number of images on the internet of Trump with this alleged type of “Jesus”. You can buy posters of them on Etsy, Amazon and eBay, and no doubt many in the MAGA cult have done so. (See attached montage of just a few of such images). There is even one which has cowboy actor John Wayne with Trump and Jesus (see bottom, second from the bright in the attached image)! However, I just want to point out a couple of important things about all this:

1) This character in the images is NOT Jesus and does not even look anything like He would have looked! I know this may come as a shock to some, but it is true. This whole history of a tall bloke with hippie hair and long flowing white (and sometimes additional red or blue) robes is a remnant from historical paintings which idealised such a “Jesus” figure. The Christ of history is not who most people think He is and was, and He did not come to do what most people think He did or say what most people think He said (or what they really would have liked Him to have said and done). He has been continually misrepresented not only in terms of His physical appearance but also misappropriated in every aspect of His teachings, actions and mission. In other words, Jesus has incessantly been set-up, falsified and thoroughly maligned. I am not going to go into all those ways here (as it could be a book!), but I just want to expand this in relation to His appearance.

It is a solemn fact that every figurative representation of God contradicts His being; and although I do not at all wish to obscure the fact that Jesus (as God manifested in the flesh) was a real human being, the conjuring up of any image of Christ for the purposes of psychological manipulation (e.g., the occult ‘visualised’ Jesus) or for political or any other type of propaganda is surely a gross form of idolatry. I do not believe that it would be out of line here to invoke the commandment about idolatry in Exodus 20:4. This commandment is not just about making idols of stone and wood but it takes in the attribution of Divine power to any image which is claimed to be of Jesus (who is in reality “God manifested in the flesh”), which is what is happening when someone depicts an alleged “Jesus” praying over a crooked politician such as Trump, or Trump dressed up as an alleged “Jesus” with lit-up hands bestowing healing on someone. It seems that this salient point about idolatry has been missed in all the expressed outrage and offendedness.

One of the ways that the misrepresentation of the real Jesus has been done is through those ridiculous Byzantine (4th century onwards) and Medieval/Renaissance art depictions falsely portraying Him as a Caucasian hippie adonis in a billowing aristocratic robe; when in reality, as the Bible clearly shows, He did not look particularly visually striking (read Isaiah 52:2 carefully), (though He will have been highly spiritually winsome to those with the spiritual eyesight to see it), and He will have been dark-skinned, rather like the Palestinians of today, and not as tall as people are there today because the average height of a male in Israel in Jesus’ time is believed to have been just over 5 feet (1.53 metres). He will also not have had that long-haired hippie hairstyle, but will have had fairly short dark hair and a beard. Remember, He was a carpenter, not a nobleman, and it would certainly not be practical for a carpenter to have those long-flowing locks and robes! Moreover, He will not even have been dressed in the fine robes that we see Him wearing in those earlier paintings and in the images of this alleged “Jesus” with Trump, for those are the clothing of the “higher” echelons of corrupt society. Instead He will have had a knee-length woollen tunic and maybe an outer garment so that He will have looked like the depiction below of a first-century working man in Israel. (Don’t worry; this is not a depiction of the actual Jesus but of a typical man of that time, to which Jesus will have looked similar).

There are countless other ways in which Jesus has been misrepresented but this was just to highlight how the alleged image of “Jesus” in the Trump-associated images is NOT the Jesus of history and the Bible but an idolatrous misrepresentation.

2) There is no need to be outraged about, or insulted by, these kind of images of Trump with an alleged “Jesus”. Jesus is a cosmically-vast “Big Boy” (understatement of the aeon!) who can handle all this and will deal with it in His own way. I am certainly not offended on His behalf. What would be the point? It is all just silly. Unregenerate people playing with they-know-not-what (fire, mostly, Letter to the Hebrews 12:29). Getting “outraged” about this kind of stupidity is wholly unnecessary. It can leads to all sorts of nasty situations; for example, in a religion like Islam where murderous Fatwas are put out against someone who has “insulted the prophet”. One cannot offend Jesus as if He has an ego which can get bent out of shape. He may take action against someone because of their outrageous words or deeds. But God doesn’t get offended like people do, and we do not need to get offended on His behalf. When I see people like this I just see ignorant, arrogant buffoons who, unless they repent, will one day have to come face-to-face with their Maker and pay the price for the way that they misrepresented and maligned Him. I don’t need to “put out a contract” (Fatwa) on someone because they have “insulted Jesus”. That is between them and the real Jesus. My faith is not part of a mafia! I will certainly firmly but quietly defend the name of Jesus against those who misrepresent Him, speak falsely about Him, or malign Him, and set them straight regarding the truth. But getting “offended” or “outraged”  is an act of the ego and is entirely unnecessary and even counterproductive.

In a strange kind of way, I actually feel a sort of compassion towards Trump and His acolytes as they “strut and fret their hour upon the stage” of this world, filled with warped ideas of their own importance, inventing totally false scenarios purporting to be “Christian” but they are anything but that. Just like circus clowns can be both funny and pathetic, so are these creatures who usurp power in this world and then trample all over it with no consciousness whatsoever of what they are doing.

The expression, “May you live in interesting times!” has been (falsely) claimed to be an old Chinese curse (because “interesting times” tend to be turbulent, unpredictable and chaotic). But those “interesting times” have actually come to pass! But this is just the warm-up for the show. The main performance is still to come! Watch this space…

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