Worst Nativity Scene Ever?

[Voltaire2]

The Vatican's "naked beefcake guy" nativity scene this year has captured the prize.

[Sanity Claws]

1. Beefcake?

More like raw kale. Not enough muscle for beefcake.

[Achilleaze]

4. What about vegans?

Is the Vatican serving up an vegancake? I mean, hello, this is 2017. Get your sex cakes in order.

[DetlefK]

2. THAT has a theological reason. Not kidding. Seriously.

In christian theology, Jesus was never a baby. He never was a baby who shat himself.
He never was a bratty toddler.
He never was ten-year-old marveling how the world works.
He never was an obnoxious teenager.

Jesus was always a calm and cool mature dude.

There are medieval pictures of baby Jesus where his body looks like the body of a shrunken adult.

[guillaumeb]

8. Christian theology is not actually a biography.

Just to make that clear.

[DetlefK]

3. I think, you mixed that up: Baby Jesus is in front of Mary with the pink dress.

[Zoonart]

5. The Vatican is mixing metaphors...

The birth of Christ and at the base of the nativity...the parable of the Good Samaritan... I think to reming Christians how to put their faith into action during the Holidays.

It is about a traveler who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. First a priest and then a Levite comes by, but both avoid the man. Finally, a Samaritan happens upon the traveler.

[Kittycow]

6. Thanks for explaining that.

I couldn't fathom why they put that naked guy in there at all, although I'm quite familiar with the Good Samaritan story.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. But if that's the traveler at the base, who's the naked guy on the right?

It is the same guy again, but with the last of his clothes taken off?

[Iggo]

7. You mean Best!

[guillaumeb]

9. Interesting how you focussed on one aspect.

And apparently missed the actual message.

Oh well.

[trotsky]

11. Wowee.

[Voltaire2]

12. I know your google skills are very limited.

Here is a clue: it ain't just me.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. There is no such thing as a good nativity scene

They only vary in their awfulness.

[AtheistCrusader]

14. Au Contraire

[DavidDvorkin]

15. The sf stuff is amusing, but by its very nature

any nativity scene is revolting.

[AtheistCrusader]

16. fair enough.