Lego Jesus Unveiled by Swedish Church for Easter
The Oensta Gryta Church in Vaesteras, Sweden unveiled a Lego Jesus at its Easter service. Work on the statue began a year and a half ago, stnds 5'8" tall, and was built using 30,000 Lego bricks donated by the congregation.
The Telegraph reports: "The model was based on the Danish sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsens's, 19th century work 'Christus', which depicts the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The pastor said the statue would remain permanently at the church and there were no plans to sell it to raise funds."
What a fabulous idea!
Posted by: Miles | Apr 13, 2009 9:32:44 AM
seems kind of disrespectful to create an image of their holy savior out of childrens toys...poor Jebus
Posted by: todd | Apr 13, 2009 9:36:49 AM
Well it's not really disrespectful. Legos have become more than just a children's toy and considering that there are christen toys that depict Jesus I doubt that it'll offend anyone. And besides that, it's just plain cool
Posted by: Salome | Apr 13, 2009 9:55:02 AM
That rules!
Posted by: Lego Jehovah | Apr 13, 2009 10:15:31 AM
This just in: Little boy pulls out toy piece and destroys Lego Jesus. Cameras caught the incident right before disaster struck. Church officials are said to be praying for a Lego miracle in the next 3 days.
Posted by: soulbrotha | Apr 13, 2009 10:42:32 AM
Damn Europoans! Don't they know Jebus was 6'5"!! How dares they denagrates the Lord?!?
Posted by: brentbent | Apr 13, 2009 1:51:37 PM
Wow! Chances are the lego Jesus can do every miracle the other Jesus could do. I bet he responds to prayers the exact same way the the 'real' jesus does.
Posted by: skeptic/realist | Apr 13, 2009 9:11:38 PM
Actually the original is 11'. Apparently the Swedes thought that was unrealistic. But really - it's the resurrected Christ. He just came back from the dead, why shouldn't he be 11'? How else would he have rolled away that giant rock door? The only person to see him after the resurrection was Paul and he was... IMHO a bad man.
Posted by: Morten G | Apr 14, 2009 3:53:00 AM