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["Lyman Green" <daerid AT io.com>]

> Which traditional portrayal? The one where he looks like Albrecht Durer?
> The one where he looks like Squiggy from Laverne and Shirley? The one
> where he looks like I took too much acid and tried to eat an omelet? The
> one where /he/ looks like he just took waaay too much speed and tried
> to dress up like Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island? The black Jesus from the
> intro to Good Times? etc. etc.
>
>
http://www.beloit.edu/~classics/main/courses/fyi2000/museum/unusual_jesus/
>
http://trinitywholesale.com/prints/religious/jesus_montage_chirst_child.htm
>
> Nobody knows what Jesus looked like. And to test anyone's capabilities
> on whether they recognize someone who NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE
> is kinda stupid. IMHO.

Now you're just being silly. Sure, all of the things you're saying above are
true.  Nevertheless, there are several widely recognized "styles" of
portraits of Jesus.  This happened to be what I call the "white hippie
Jesus."  I've always thought it was a really stupid picture, not even close
to accurate to what Jesus might have looked like.  Nevertheless, I do not
think I'm going too far off base (raised Catholic till age 18, plenty of
Catholic and ecumenical Christian dogma burned into my brain over those
years) when I say that many, many people would recognize this as a picture
of Jesus.

Lyman