one of several featured in a piece on the Cracked web site<\/a>, about religious art that intended to communicate one thing, but to many who see it conveys something else (HT Michael Wilson on Facebook). Some of the comments in that article about the various historical figures depicted in the painting will probably make you laugh out loud. Please refrain from clicking through if you have a beverage in your mouth and your iPad or laptop on your lap in front of you.<\/p>\nFeel free to comment on time travel to first century Palestine, or share your own examples of religious artwork gone awry \u2013 whichever you find more interesting!<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 It is a scenario that some science fiction stories have explored \u2013 Gary Kilworth’s \u201cLet’s Go To Golgotha!\u201d and Michael Moorcock’s \u201cBehold The Man\u201d come immediately to mind. Even I have a story involving time travel to first century Judaea that I would love to write. But even if you haven’t read such stories, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,86],"tags":[800,1846,3686,4660,4871,5677,8620,10890,12633,12639],"class_list":["post-8509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-jesus","category-humor","category-science-fiction","tag-art","tag-christianity-religion","tag-funny","tag-history","tag-humor","tag-jesus","tag-painting","tag-science-fiction","tag-time-machine","tag-time-travel"],"yoast_head":"\n
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