Jesus Christ In Portuguese Playboy Magazine Sparks Outrage (GALLERY – NSFW)
The geniuses at Playboy has decided to include the depiction of Jesus Christ in Portuguese’s Playboy magazine (July 2010).
The magazine spread featuring Jesus is meant as an homage to Nobel winning writer Jose Saramago. Saramago, an atheist and the only Portugese author to receive a Nobel prize, died last month.
The images of Christ on the cover and within the pages of the magazine are inspired by a Saramago novel, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, a fictional reimagining of Christ’s life as a flawed human being.
Jesus is on the cover of the July Playboy, sitting on a bed, holding a scantily clad female. The title of Saramago’s book is engraved into the headboard of the bed.
The other explicit images in the magazine show Jesus watching a lesbian sex scene, standing next to a street prostitute, and looking over the shoulder of a half naked woman reminiscent of a Catholic school girl.
Christians have already taken offense to the imagery, even though it does have an ostensibly literary purpose. One Christian group called the entire issue “deplorable with such distaste that it could only have been fueled by the devil.” Yet it seems fairly certain that no fatwas will be issued, and no death threats will be made.
For this little bit of sanity, Christians and non-Christians alike can take some comfort.
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