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$\"Jesus$ <\/p>\n

When I shared David Hayward\u2019s depiction of the temple incident<\/a>, suggesting that it happened because Jesus hadn\u2019t had his morning coffee, Brian Le Port pointed out that it reminded him of one of those Snickers commercials.<\/p>\n

It seemed worth actually making it, and so I did. In case it needs to be said, I don\u2019t think that the above depicts what actually happened. But\u00a0I\u00a0trust it can still be funny, despite or perhaps even because of that.\u00a0Indeed, perhaps my attempt at humor\u00a0can even be useful for getting at the tendency to flatten Jesus (and indeed other characters in the Gospels) into pure gentleness and kindness, or an angry table-flipper, with no room for a complex character who might fit both at times.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"