A Final Word

It's been a great semester, and I think I've learned a lot from this blog. To me, the most important thing to learn about Christianity is how it affects people today. There are a thousand Christian cultures to choose from, and they're all readily available and at your fingertips. Some are outrageous, some are funny, some are conservative, and some are new. It's always up to you to decide what Christianity means to you and if it's the right choice.

With that, I'll leave you to contemplate the most modern thing I've ever seen: Jesus taking a mirror selfie with an iPhone.

"Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus"

This is a four-minute spoken word poem by Jefferson Bethke that attacks the contemporary problems facing Christianity and religion. He describes it as such: "A poem I wrote to highlight the difference between Jesus and false religion. In the scriptures Jesus received the most opposition from the most religious people of his day. At it's core Jesus' gospel and the good news of the Cross is in pure opposition to self-righteousness/self-justification. Religion is man centered, Jesus is God-centered. This poem highlights my journey to discover this truth. Religion either ends in pride or despair. Pride because you make a list and can do it and act better than everyone, or despair because you can't do your own list of rules and feel "not good enough" for God. With Jesus though you have humble confident joy because He represents you, you don't represent yourself and His sacrifice is perfect putting us in perfect standing with God the Father."

It's a really interesting poem that highlights a lot of stereotypes and prejudices that faced Jesus and apply to today's culture. He denounces religion mostly for the political and controlling aspects, and he embraces the simplicity of Jesus and his teachings. It's worth a couple of listens for anyone who dislikes religion but still feels the draw of some of its aspects.

Does ethical objectivity require God?

This is a bit of an aside from another one of my classes, but I find it very interesting and I'll leave it here for you all to consider. This article by Shafer-Landau is a philosophical argument that depicts the problem with religious people  saying that atheists have no morals because they don't believe in God. The crux of the argument is this: If God decides what is moral, then there is no real objectivity or inherent rightness to morality outside of God's command. If God were to decide that gratuitous torture was moral, then there would be no objective reason for anyone to still believe that it was wrong, despite our current beliefs that it is wrong. However, if God does NOT decide what is moral because there is a moral objectivity inherent in the universe, then God musts recognize some higher law or power above himself that dictates morality.

So which side are good Christians supposed to take? Does God bow to a great Morality Law? Or does He create Morality in a way that would essentially be arbitrary because he would decide morality and immorality  by only his own reasoning and not by any inherent good or badness?

It's an interesting debate to think about.

"Left Behind" The Series

The Left Behind series is a set of sixteen books by authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins that depicts the world in the middle of the Christian apocalypse. In the series, the Rapture occurs and the remaining people on earth try desperately to figure out what to do. A Romanian by the name of Nicolae Jetty Carpathia gains political power, and is eventually discovered to be the Antichrist. Meanwhile, a small group of people who call themselves the Tribulation Force try to gather people and prepare for Christ's return and second judgement.

The books were wildly popular. They garnered the number one positions on the New York Times Bestsellers, USA Today Bestsellers, and Publishers Weekly Bestsellers. It's an interesting comment on our society that the NY Times list didn't include Protestant bookstore sales and yet the books remained topsellers. Even when people don't prescribe to a particular religion, they're hungry for anything labeled "apocalyptic."

Darwin's Christianity

I don't think very many people recognize it, but Charles Darwin (who created the theory of evolution by natural selection) was quite pious. In fact, he initially went to school hoping to become a clergyman. However, after travelling quite a bit of the world and documenting the biology of creatures across the globe, he felt that he had no choice but to face evolution in light of overwhelming evidence. His wife, Emma, (who was also his cousin) begged him not to pursue the theory and wrote to him  asking him to return to scripture instead just before their marriage:

"My reason tells me that honest & conscientious doubts cannot be a sin, but I feel it would be a painful void between us. I thank you from my heart for your openness with me & I should dread the feeling that you were concealing your opinions from the fear of giving me pain. It is perhaps foolish of me to say this much but my own dear Charley we now do belong to each other & I cannot help being open with you. Will you do me a favour? yes I am sure you will, it is to read our Saviours farewell discourse to his disciples which begins at the end of the 13th Chap of John. It is so full of love to them & devotion & every beautiful feeling. It is the part of the New Testament I love best. This is a whim of mine it would give me great pleasure, though I can hardly tell why I don't wish you to give me your opinion about it."

Darwin himself was very conflicted, and he stayed involved with his church even as his theory garnered attention. But after he truly accepted the theory, he took on a more agnostic attitude because of the rifts he saw between science and the possibility of a God:

"With respect to the theological view of the question; this is always painful to me.— I am bewildered.– I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see, as plainly as others do, & as I [should] wish to do, evidence of design & beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice. Not believing this, I see no necessity in the belief that the eye was expressly designed. On the other hand I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe & especially the nature of man, & to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can."

Just goes to show that not all scientists are happy with the problems between theology and science. Darwin, the father of evolution and origin of the biggest Christian conflict in history, wished it wasn't so.

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Best of : Church Signs

We've all seen one or two of them. Signs outside of good, God-fearing churches that appear oddly out of place when covered in a little wit or cleverness. I decided to search the web in a quest to find the best and most offensive church signs of all. Here's what I found:

The Wedge Document

The Wedge Document is a very controversial piece of hushed-up Intelligent Design propaganda. It essentially outlines a social battle plan to defeat naturalism, materialism, and most of all, evolution. The ID network, which often tries to pass itself off as a science, threw a fit when the document was leaked online several years ago. The Document describes ways that the ID Network wants to infiltrate the American media and then spread theism and a belief in God throughout the Western world. The three main stages outlined in the document include: Scientific Research Writing & Publicity,
Publicity & Opinion-making, and Cultural Confrontation & Renewal. Essentially, the idea is to make figures from the ID Network popular and influential in popular opinion, and then use that influence to bring about a social renewal in Christianity. Ultimately, they want to destroy the public's faith in evolution among other things.

The Document was obviously removed from the internet some years ago by ID workers, but one of my professors had saved a cached version to present to her class. I'll link it here for you guys to read yourselves.

http://spot.colorado.edu/~cleland/articles/The_Wedge_Document.pdf

The Journey of Jesus: The Calling

Now you too can “walk in the Messiah’s steps, in an authentic experience of Israel in Christ’s time” with an interactive video game entitled "The Journey of Jesus." (link)

The gameplay is pretty simple. You walk through parts of Jesus's life following the Gospels. The idea is to create a conversation among young consumers about faith, and to have an interactive and engaging (and accurate) Scripture lesson.

The Jesus character in the game is drawn as an animate, big-headed and big-eyed man with a beard. Except for the smile and weird bulgyness, it fits pretty closely to classic European depictions of Christ.

The facebook for the game describes it as follows: "Play the first ever video game about Jesus! A fun adventure quest game where you overcome obstacles, fulfill missions, and participate in miracles. Play the story of Jesus! Journey of Jesus: The Calling is a fun adventure where you play a major part in the Gospel story. Follow Jesus, accomplish missions, be a part of miracles and fulfill your calling!"

Anyway, if you get curious it's a facebook platform game so you can give it a try. I'll post the game trailer below as well. It's worth noting that religious video games are not yet a phenomena, as noted in the major flop of the supremely weird "Zoo Race" game inspired by Noah's Ark. It's hard to tell whether these games will become more popular enough.

Just try to remember that the Messiah actually was killed, so don't feel too bad when you die. It's all a part of the game.

Are you feeling blasphemous?

A catchy title, indeed. Another humorous Jesus-related internet search result for you today, folks. I found this funny article and thought I'd share it with you; it's supposedly the ten funniest Jesus images online. These are my favorites:

The second picture absolutely kills me, good grief.

Catholic Clergy Crackdown

Apparently Pope Francis has decided to take an up-front position against sexual abuse in the church.

"The Holy Father in a special way urged that the Congregation, following the line sought by Benedict XVI, act decisively in sex abuse cases, above all promoting measures to protect minors, assistance for all those who in the past suffered such violence, necessary measures against the guilty," the statement said of Francis' meeting with Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller. (link)

In another twist on tradition, the Pope allegedly wants to take a stance against not only the clergy responsible for these harrowing accounts of abuse, but also against those who support and cover up the crimes. Often, higher-placing officials such as bishops and cardinals play a role in hiding the scandals that seem to be rampant in the Catholic Church.

Some are skeptical about how effective the Pope will truly be about this unconfirmed aspect of the new regime. Many make anecdotes to his slow reactions to Argentinian sexual abuse instances, and believe it's just another official making just another promise. Some, however, heeding the name that Pope Francis chose for himself, believe that he will ring in a new era of modern policy and discipline.

We'll just have to stay tuned to find out.

BioLogos vs. ID

I think I should probably put an anecdote about BioLogos in here, because I don't want readers to confuse BioLogos with ID. BioLogos is closer to the belief that a designer influenced the processes of creation and evolution in the universe, and the support for this lies mostly in statistics. In the book I'm reading for my report, "Language of God," the evidence is presented fairly compellingly. But again. Not to be confused with ID, which believes that the historical science left about evolution, the age of the earth, etc. is just an extended red herring.

More on BioLogos later though, perhaps after my book report. For now, here's a link to a more in-depth description of the differences between BioLogos and ID on the BioLogos domain.

Intelligent Design

You've probably heard the term used before: Intelligent Design, or more simply, ID. It sounds pretty impressive, and the sponsor site of ID lists it as a science. It is written about in a way that seems reasonable and even legitimate:

"Intelligent design refers to a scientific research program as well as a community of scientists, philosophers and other scholars who seek evidence of design in nature. The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. Through the study and analysis of a system's components, a design theorist is able to determine whether various natural structures are the product of chance, natural law, intelligent design, or some combination thereof. Such research is conducted by observing the types of information produced when intelligent agents act. Scientists then seek to find objects which have those same types of informational properties which we commonly know come from intelligence. Intelligent design has applied these scientific methods to detect design in irreducibly complex biological structures, the complex and specified information content in DNA, the life-sustaining physical architecture of the universe, and the geologically rapid origin of biological diversity in the fossil record during the Cambrian explosion approximately 530 million years ago." link

This sounds really fine and dandy, but what are they actually selling?

"Intelligent design begins with the observation that intelligent agents produce complex and specified information (CSI). Design theorists hypothesize that if a natural object was designed, it will contain high levels of CSI. Scientists then perform experimental tests upon natural objects to determine if they contain complex and specified information."

So, perhaps this isn't as sound as it appears.

The actual belief of ID (no, I'm not joking here) is that God created the natural world and place red herrings such as evidence for evolution, the ages of the rocks, radiometric dating, etc. to mislead us and test our faith in him. All of the historical science we have come to believe in is a hoax to separate the faithful from the unfaithful, and to see if we'll continue to believe Scripture in light of evidence. While the propaganda put out by the ID campaigners may mislead you to believe it is a more legitimized science, the core value is just that.

But where's the evidence? They often site "irreducibly complex structures" such as flagellum on bacterium that don't appear to have had any path for evolution to have created them. They also like mentioning the complexity of DNA. However, bioscientists have met with a good amount of success in squashing these arguments through circumstantial evidence, so don't think too long about it.

Apocryphal Shape-Shifting

In an Egyptian text recently translated, the time before Jesus's crucifixion is described in great detail with an interesting new twist. Apparently, Jesus was not only a magical man of works, but also a shape-shifter.

The text describes the reasons why Judas had to use a kiss in order to identify Jesus. Jesus did not appear the same to all men: "Then the Jews said to Judas: How shall we arrest him [Jesus], for he does not have a single shape but his appearance changes. Sometimes he is ruddy, sometimes he is white, sometimes he is red, sometimes he is wheat coloured, sometimes he is pallid like ascetics, sometimes he is a youth, sometimes an old man ..." Judas suggested the kiss as a means to signal Jesus's identity to the men wanting to arrest him because a description of his appearance would not have worked.

The idea of a shape-shifting Jesus (also given as an example when he becomes ghost-like and then disappears during a dinner with Pilates, and even later in a tidbit from Origen) suggests a more divine representation of Jesus that classically accepted. Instead of appearing completely human and merely completing divine works, this Egyptian Jesus was manifested with clear supernatural abilities evident in his appearance.

I'll be interested to find out if other works reflect this particular ability.

Jesus Was Way Cool!

This may perhaps be the most intriguing pro-Jesus musical score I have ever heard. Titled simply "Jesus was way cool" by King Missile III, the song has some intriguing and simplistic suggestions of what powers Jesus held.

Lyrics:

Jesus was way cool
Everybody liked Jesus
Everybody wanted to hang out with him
Anything he wanted to do, he did
He turned water into wine
And if he wanted to
He could have turned wheat into marijuana
Or sugar into cocaine
Or vitamin pills into amphetamines

He walked on the water
And swam on the land
He would tell these stories
And people would listen
He was really cool

If you were blind or lame
You just went to Jesus
And he would put his hands on you
And you would be healed
That's so cool

He could've played guitar better than Hendrix
He could've told the future
He could've baked the most delicious cake in the world
He could've scored more goals than Wayne Gretzky
He could've danced better than Barishnikov
Jesus could have been funnier than any comedian you can think of
Jesus was way cool

He told people to eat his body and drink his blood
That's so cool
Jesus was so cool
But then some people got jealous of how cool he was
So they killed him
But then he rose from the dead
He rose from the dead, danced around
Then went up to heaven
I mean, that's so cool
Jesus was way cool

No wonder there are so many Christians

Questionable Artwork

It appears that earlier this month a billboard in Auckland depicting "gay baby Jesus" was put up for sale starting at $300. The billboard was a part of a church campaign for gay acceptance, but many conservatives took it to heart. It featured baby Jesus with a rainbow halo and the words "It's Christmas. Time for Jesus to come out." No word yet on how much it sold for, but some potential buyers requested that it be repainted to represent "straight baby Jesus" before the sale.

The seller seemed generally amused by this request and made no objection.

Jesus: Healer, Carpenter, Messiah... twitter fanatic.

Jesus has taken to the interwebs! Or at least someone masquerading as Jesus had. The popular twitter account @Jesus has over 550,00 followers and less that 500 tweets, but I wouldn't say that most of those followers are Christians looking for inspiration. Instead of biblical treatsies, the @Jesus account offers random and often witty tweets worthy of any teenage blogger's Twitter account. Here are some of the best ones:

Contemporary Christian Art

These contemporary Christian pieces are done by artist Alan Belcher (whitecrossstudio.com,) who works mostly in mixed and minimalist mediums to create Jesus-related artwork that appeals to the world of modern art. His interpretations are somewhat characteristic of the consumer-friendly universe of today's Christian art; they are arguably less harsh than older pieces that communicated scenes instead of abstracts. Most of Belcher's pieces are inspired by a specific biblical passage or quote.

Find the person that God created for you!

As I was sitting in my dorm room not doing homework a few hours ago, a sudden curiosity struck me. And that curiosity was concerned primarily with Christian dating sites.

"ChristianMingle.com Where We Bring Christian Singles Together. At ChristianMingle.com we're more than just a site for Christian dating, we're a Christian personals community where you can find singles that share your values and love for God in Christ. We are always working to help you build a strong relationship with other Christian singles.

This is an ideal destination for Christian men and women to find friends, dates, and even soul mates, all within the faith. In just minutes, you can create a profile and be ready to mingle with other members in your area. Our vast membership base and user-friendly interface make ChristianMingle.com a source of Christian romance around the world. When creating your profile, consider what you want to get out of this online dating and chatting experience. Share your goals as well as interests, favorite Bible passages, and explore other profiles to see what you have in common with other Christian singles. Enjoy chatting or instant messaging about current events, movies, music, dating experiences, how you came to find Christ, and other topics you are comfortable talking about. Online community networking and dating is fun, safe, and customizable. You control who you interact with and how much you share about yourself. Trust God and your God-given instincts to guide you through this experience. Find out how easy it is to get to know other Christian singles in your area by joining ChristianMingle.com.

Enjoy our Christian chat rooms, instant messenger, message boards, Bible verse of the day, searchable Bible, and many other great features. We even have Christian dating tips! Free Christian dating service added features like these are a unique part of the ChristianMingle.com member package and user experience. Use them to connect with Christian singles in new ways and learn about yourself, your goals, and your walk with Christ at the same time. Sign up today to start enjoying the Christian community at ChristianMingle.com."

Most of the mission statements for Christian dating sites are very similar similar to this; it's basically the about me taken from Facebook with the words 'bible' and 'Christ' thrown in a lot. While the sites supposedly cater to Christians, no particular technologies exist to bring Christianity into the actual process of online dating outside of the conversation topics chosen by users. There's also no way to keep non-Christians from signing up.

I'm somewhat surprised that the Christian faith is so accepting of a site such as this. I would think that there would be more opposition with the idea that it was intervening with God's will. But what if the internet IS God's will? Then what?

Regardless, I'm not totally sure how unique these sites are. Wouldn't it be easy just to sign up for eHarmony, check yourself as a Christian, and mark it as really important in a partner?

"God Distances Self from Conservative Right"

I was perusing The Onion and found a gloriously acidic article about Christianity and American politics. The article created a satirical representation of God at a press conference; this God went on the record to disagree with most Christian Right politicians on cases such as sexuality, capital punishment, and economy. The major push of the article was actually a comment made by Richard Mourdock, who made claims that pregnancies resulting from rape cases were God's will. In fact, they were a gift.

"'Many people hear my name in connection with the Christian Right and start to assume we are aligned in some capacity, and I’m here to say, for the record, that we are not,' God continued. 'So let me just be clear: I don’t want women to get raped—not ever. I don’t think their resulting pregnancies are my divine will. And if a woman is raped, then she has the right to get an abortion, period. I do not agree with Mourdock. I do not agree with the Christian Right. End of story.'"

The article brings to light an interesting tug-of-war: at what point do Christian politicians overstep the line by endorsing the brand of Christianity upon social issues? Do they have the authority to do this? How can individuals speak politically for an entire religion? And do their representations really describe the Christian church, or do they only further the careers of greedy politicians?

Some Oatmeal Humor..

Here are a few funny comics about how webmaster and comic-creator "The Oatmeal" feels about religion. The first one is about God's Rapture Install-Wizard, and the second about atheism and dictators. Bon appetit!

Lilith in Feminist Lit Theory

As it turns out, Lilith from Genesis figures in as an important character in feminist literary theory. I read the following passage in my Literary Theory textbook and realized that it said exactly what I felt about the story of Lilith; namely, Lilith represents a patriarchy that condemns women to being perceived as demons for having even a little bit of independence from men. (I've high-lighted the important stuff. Just click the picture for larger viewing size.)

Cyanide and Happiness

I was browsing my favorite webcomic earlier and came across perhaps the greatest comic ever created with regards to God (I actually snorted and then proceeded to engage in the act of ugly, ugly laughter after reading this... I think it's something about God's squinty eyes that gets me.) Have fun with this one!

Another sexual abuse story in the church...

Something really upsetting happened this week. A 67-year old retired Catholic deacon was turned in by Verizon for uploading child pornography to the digital Verizon storage cloud. He has admitted to watching/collecting this sort of material since the 1970s. Luckily, he says he never helped create the pornography and none of the kids involved appear to have been from his community. A link to the story is here.

Now, I'm not sure if there's a correlation to religious men and sexual abuse or if it's just the fact that offenses are publicized more if the perpetrators have religious power. What I am really curious about, though, is how these people stand before a congregation while preaching the morality and purity of their faith while all the while knowing that they violate the basic standards of human decency. It just seems like such an all-encompassing contradiction, and I don't know how someone would ever reconcile themselves to both sides.

I guess every group has a bad egg or two somewhere.

GODTUBE.COM!

So where are all of the Christians of the interwebs going? If they aren't doing so hot on facebook, blogging sites, or threads such as Reddit and 4chan, what domains can they freely walk?

Well, for starters, there's godtube.com.

This is a really interesting website. It's essentially youtube, but approved by the faith. Here's their 'about us' :

"Godtube.com is a video sharing platform offering online Christian videos with faith-based, family friendly content. Popular video sections on Godtube include; Christian bands and singers in Christian music videos, Christian comedians and comedy skits, spoofs and parodies in funny videos, cute videos featuring kids and animals, sports videos, Christian news videos and inspirational videos. Be inspired in your walk with Jesus Christ and grow in your knowledge of the Bible with videos highlighting inspirational messages and verses."

I'm betting that you'll be hard-pressed to find a video with cursing, let alone the sort of content you can find on youtube if you dig around enough. I browsed the 'cute videos' section and found some pretty standard viral videos, including that baby who wakes up and immediately starts dancing when "Gangnam Style" comes on the radio. Less standard picks include little kids singing hymns and talking about their love for Jesus.

I also read about Conservapedia (like a Wiki page for conservative Christians) but I got a really scary pop-up from my WOT telling me to beware. I'm guessing a group of trolls probably rate-bombed the site, but you can never be too careful. Maybe some other day I'll feel brave enough to peruse...

Will the Internet kill Christianity?

I read an article earlier this week and didn't think about sharing it till just now. It's essentially a discussion of why the amount of Americans claiming Christianity as a faith has rapidly declined in the last three decades while the amount of atheists climbs higher every year. The arguable answer?

The internet.

"Christianity does poorly when it doesn't control the entire message and allows people a free exchange of thought? What a freaking shock.”

“My prediction: look for theists to start withdrawing into Internet-free communes.”

Can the explosive growth of irreligion—that amorphous term comprising deism, agnosticism and atheism as well as relative neologisms like antitheism and ignosticism—really be linked to the Internet? Some atheists on the web seem to think so. A question in the forums for The Friendly Atheist, a popular blog among non-theists, asked whether ex-theists would have shed their religion if the Internet didn’t exist. Many felt they wouldn’t. A post on Unreasonable Faith (ostensibly a counter to Christian philosopher and apologist William Lane Craig’s book and online community dubbed Reasonable Faith) surmised that the Internet was crucial to the success of the “New Atheists.”

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The fact is, a relationship between irreligion and the Internet was bound to happen. Religion has long enjoyed a culturally accepted free space in which to share rhetoric—the Church. Atheism has suffered the exact opposite. America’s wariness of (or its outright antagonism toward, in its greatest excesses) irreligion has forced atheism to the fringes of its society. What the Internet has provided is a free space for atheists in this nation to connect with those across the globe whose cultural milieus are more inviting of all brands of irreligion; indeed, some in which secularism is a majority viewpoint.  

It is no wonder, therefore, that atheism is gaining steam in the U.S. Compared with the Internet, not to mention the secular nations of those with whom that space is shared, America is downright stifling. The political sway of the religious right seems somehow more maddening. The “we don’t belong!” rhetoric of American atheists becomes stronger, and it’s a message that today’s Christians buy into.

That’s because the free space in which they share rhetoric was never the Church to begin with. The Church belonged to their parents—the Internet belongs to them. The Internet may be helping to facilitate deconversion among evangelical youth, but it is not because of an “abundance of information” that challenges their faith. Rather, it is because the place where they spend much of their lives is where non-theists often control the discourse. It’s safe to say the majority of voices they encounter in web forums, news blogs and Facebook timelines will not echo those heard in their church foyer."

So really, the idea is that the internet is not beating out Christianity because it spreads information, but rather because of the tone. In the last generations' days, the church was a primary focal point for life. The only people they knew were people from similar backgrounds, from the same area with similar upbringings. But now, because the internet belongs primarily to the young, the tone is set by the 'outsiders' of religion. More and more people are picking up atheist ideas and connecting with people they never would have known otherwise.

Of course Christianity will probably continue to thrive within religious communities and families. The real drain on faith comes from areas with haphazard or lukewarm religious influence, in which kids are left to their own devices and allowed to find their own beliefs. There are plenty to pick from out here on the WWW.

Know Your Memes: Contradictory God

While we're talking about religion and the internet, I might as well bring in ANOTHER meme. This one is kind of funny, actually. It pretty much focuses on points at which God's actions or words seem to contradict themselves.

Pop Culture Jesus: Part Three

This may be the last installment of our chronicle. For now I've got pop culture remix of "The Last Supper," an incredibly famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Here's the original painting:

Now we have the remixes.

First up is the Pokémon Last Supper.

The Rave Last Supper...

Canine Last Supper?

90s Cartoons Last Supper!

The Rat Diorama Last Supper from "Dinner with Schmucks."

Lego Last Supper.

Video Game Last Supper

South Park Last Supper

Zombie Last Supper

And, finally, Star Wars Last Supper!

I guess I have to say that I'm not surprised that such an iconic painting would be recreated in so many ways. Some of these are a little funny; some a little disturbing. I get the idea that most of the renditions were not created by highly religious artists.

That's all I've got for now.