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Jesus, Budweiser Billboard Defaced - advertisement with Jesus as a pitchman for Budweiser beer
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Posted on 08/06/2002 5:50:43 PM PDT by chance33_98


Jesus, Budweiser Billboard Defaced
Display Was Part Of Artscape
Larry Frum, Jr., Staff Writer 

POSTED: 7:46 a.m. EDT August 6, 2002 UPDATED: 7:47 a.m. EDT August 6, 2002

BALTIMORE -- Is it art or an advertisement? A billboard in a Baltimore neighborhood is drawing fire from people and paint cans alike.

The artist believes it's art, but it looks like an advertisement with Jesus as a pitchman for Budweiser beer. The painting shows Jesus holding a bottle of beer.

Sometime Sunday night, someone tried to whitewash the message by splashing paint all over the painting. The person who threw the paint left behind the can and a mess.

The billboard was part of Artscape, the downtown Baltimore art festival held last week. It was designed by a New Jersey artist and has been the source of many church discussions recently.

WBAL-TV 11 News in Baltimore couldn't find anyone who agreed with its message. One person said, "People are getting killed in accidents because of beer. But they got Jesus holding a beer up and that's not right."

However, most people also agreed that splashing white paint on the billboard was not the answer. One resident said, "Anybody can do the art they want to. If you don't like it, you should say so, but you shouldn't just destroy it.

Late Monday afternoon, the city removed the billboard. They say, not because some people find it offensive, but because it was covered in paint.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: antichristianart; artbigotry; decadentart; taxsupportedarts
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1 posted on 08/06/2002 5:50:44 PM PDT by chance33_98
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Ping!
2 posted on 08/06/2002 5:51:44 PM PDT by chance33_98
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To: chance33_98
He drank wine. Why not beer?
3 posted on 08/06/2002 5:52:06 PM PDT by StoneColdGOP
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To: StoneColdGOP
He wasn't doing advertisements for Ernest and Julia Gallo, though.
4 posted on 08/06/2002 5:53:48 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: chance33_98
Well, Christ takes away the sins of the world. Maybe Christ inspired the an artist to white wash this board that broke the 1st Commandment.
5 posted on 08/06/2002 5:54:02 PM PDT by A CA Guy
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To: chance33_98
But they got Jesus holding a beer up and that's not right.

How bout a billboard with Mohammed holding a beer?

6 posted on 08/06/2002 5:54:03 PM PDT by Alouette
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To: StoneColdGOP
I can see Jesus ad's popping up all over at christmas 'Jesus would like to get these slippers for his birthday, and so would someone on your list!'
7 posted on 08/06/2002 5:54:32 PM PDT by chance33_98
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To: StoneColdGOP
If he'd only done wine thing with beer.
8 posted on 08/06/2002 5:55:17 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: chance33_98
Beer is proof that God exists and wants us to be happy. Benjamin Franklin?
10 posted on 08/06/2002 5:55:54 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Alouette
I want to see a billboard with Mohammed holding his camel wife.
11 posted on 08/06/2002 5:57:01 PM PDT by Khepera
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To: StoneColdGOP
Because The Son of God has the wits about him to know that mixing alcoholic beverages makes you sick.
12 posted on 08/06/2002 5:59:22 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: StoneColdGOP
He drank wine. Why not beer?

There is no bibical evidence that Jesus drank wine, although, at a wedding, He performed His first miracle by turning water into wine so He didn't disapprove of it as a beverage. He did not condone drunkeness. He did not authorize His likeness being used to give the impression that he drank Bud, either.

The picture was uncalled for and while defacing 'art' is not condoned, one can understand why an outraged citizen was moved to deface the thing.

13 posted on 08/06/2002 6:01:28 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: chance33_98
I can see Jesus ad's popping up all over at christmas

What a concept!

14 posted on 08/06/2002 6:02:12 PM PDT by Alouette
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To: StoneColdGOP
"He drank wine. Why not beer?"

Now now, my friend........you know better. That wasn't fermented wine as we know it; not the wine that Jesus drank. Well known fact, well established.

15 posted on 08/06/2002 6:02:50 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: Alouette
I can see Jesus ad's popping up all over at christmas

And now, the King of Kings for the King of Beers...

16 posted on 08/06/2002 6:04:53 PM PDT by TheyConvictedOglethorpe
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To: Paul Atreides
Would he have done it for Mogan David? For Seder?
18 posted on 08/06/2002 6:05:21 PM PDT by TEXASPROUD
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19 posted on 08/06/2002 6:05:37 PM PDT by Bob J
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