Jesus in a Bell Jar

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Jesus in a Bell Jar

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What do you think of the Church's new symbol?

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Re: Jesus in a Bell Jar

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This thread is ending and is being renewed and refined at the NEW BOARD. It's less offensive but will continue to examine critical elements of the logo.

The official LOGO is attached therein because of less stringent size requirements.


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---New Church Logo of Jesus in a Bell Jar?---


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What do I think?

Well, just look at it. His robe is fallen open -- very sloppy looking. It looks like tatters dangling at his foot. Really bad.

Most of all, I notice his nipple is exposed. Wow. Exposing the nipple in that fashion is either crude or a prelude to pornography.

Christ needs a haircut. He looks greasy and unkept. As a gay man, I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole.

In a nutshell, I do NOT like the new Church logo at all. I think it looks terrible. It's just gross.

With that said, I don't even like Jesus, so perhaps, I'm a bit biased.
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Re: Jesus in a Bell Jar

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I find it unbecoming that the Mormons depict nail marks in the palms of resurrected Jesus. It's just wrong. The resurrected body is supposed to be glorious and perfected. Mormons make a crude display of Christ. There is no need to flash nail marks for someone crucified some 2,000 years ago when everyone knows who it's supposed to be. It's not necessary! It's crude and barbaric. Focusing on someone's mortal wounds is in poor taste. The Mormons seem to have a curious psychological egoism when it comes to trying to prove they're Christians.

Are the Mormons Christians? Not really. They work to get to heaven and rely on grace only after all they can do. It's suppose to be relying on all his grace and then doing what you can do to better the cause.
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Re: Jesus in a Bell Jar

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moksha wrote:
Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:31 am
What do you think of the Church's new symbol?

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And you say you fed the crowd with a fish that was how big?
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Re: Jesus in a Bell Jar

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The Mormons are desperately trying to appear Christian and corner the market on a new image of Jesus. If the above logo is so inspired from God and the Latter-day Saints are in such need of these little reminders then why didn't earlier First Presidencies come up with it first? The poor Mormons under all the previous Presidents were deprived of this new idea to put Jesus in a bottle and package him up as if Mormons have suddenly turned into Christians. Mormons are Christians? I don't think so. Christianity is supposed to be about telling the truth and the Mormons certainly don't tell the truth when it comes to the Explanations of the Book of Abraham Facsimiles! I've never seen so many lies in one place!

The whole thing is nothing but a public relations stunt.

I think the new logo is ugly and overly blue. Why just blue? Why not add a little color? Didn't God invent the rainbow after murdering millions of people in Noah's flood? The Mormons have access to the color chart and have failed to use it. The use of two tone blue looks too businesslike and conservative -- a church run by businessmen and lawyers who are wanting you to commit to giving the Church 10% of your income for the rest of your life. For all that money all you're really going to get in the Mormon Church is Jesus in a bottle -- a blue icon with a man with holes in his hands.

Again, looking at the hands with holes in them is disconcerting.
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Let me out of here!

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Honestly, the thought of being trapped or on display in a jar does not appeal to my senses. I think it was rude of the Church to entrap Jesus in a jar. I think the logo should be discontinued without delay. It's crude and makes Jesus look like a prisoner to himself. Nobody should have to be on display in a jar! It's just rude.

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Time In A Bottle

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The image of Jesus trapped in his Jar is disconcerting. His hands are stretched out as if to measure how much room he has before touching the glass. Nobody should have to live in a bottle. It's a terrible, terrible, concept.

The Mormons have goofed up by putting Jesus in a bottle! People don't belong in bottles.


If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
'Til eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true



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Mannequin Jesus

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There simply is no good way to depict someone in a jar. It's nothing more than a prison. Jesus is on display within the confounds of his new Mormon logo and looks like a mannequin standing atop a rack of clothes in a department store. The whole thing seems rather creepy to me.

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O God in the Eternal Jar

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The Church logo depicting Jesus in a jar is absolute confinement. The cold stone statue of Jesus standing at a tilt within the prison of a jar appears as if it was a statue on display for thousands of years having no shadow of change and no joy in which to transcend. Jesus in his Mormon bottle appears a prisoner in a haze of corporate blue. No joy. No love. No sunshine. That's what Mormon Jesus lacks!

Free Jesus NOW! Let him go.

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Let me out of here

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Jump?

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Not in a jar?

Not skipping jump rope?

Maybe he's contemplating jumping from the ledge of the Clerestory!


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