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Related: About this forumColombia builds tallest Jesus statue in Americas
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Jesus not in everyones heart
Not everybody is as enthusiastic however. Locals have sued the state governments contribution to the project for not respecting the separation of church and state.
The local governments lawyers refuted the allegations by claiming that the gigantic sculpture of a young man with a beard, wrapped in a robe is in fact not the Christian Messiah, but an abstract figure, unique and at the same time universal for all creeds and persuasions, which features christian, buddhist, hindu, pagan, egyptian and pre-hispanic iconography.
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He sure looks like the Jesus I was taught to worship.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)edhopper
(33,606 posts)Big freaken statues of Jesus around.
http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/02/the-tallest-statues-of-jesus-christ-in.html
bvf
(6,604 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)Photo: el frente
It's bigger than the one in Rio and they hope it will attract a lot of tourism.