It sure offended some folks.
Update-- I don't know where the pic went. Perhaps it didn't pass some cenor? You can see it at this site: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://linkoping.expressen.se/polopoly_fs/1.1070989!slot100slotWide75ArticleFull/3447786819.jpg&imgrefurl=http://cominganarchy.com/2008/03/10/jesus-defecation-poster-request/&usg=__1wG8S2BbYgQpCbxgr2L_bFHDboY=&h=301&w=420&sz=33&hl=en&start=50&um=1&tbnid=djfR_76SS3ZTLM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djesus%2Bsatan%2Bpunk%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4TSHA_enUS309%26sa%3DN
I guess it was a pic in Europe (the Netherlands, Sweeden?) that advertised a punk concert. Some people got all up in arms about it being blasphemous, or some such thing, and a controversy erupted. As usual.
However, I find it interesting that the pic accurately describes the first theory of atonement, the Christus Victor point of view.
In that view, Satan arranged for Jesus to be dishonored and cast out of the congregation of Israel. Crucifixion, in the first century, is not as much a symbol of torture or death, but of the ultimate dishonor. Thus, Satan shitting on Jesus is an accurate description of the cross, from the Christus Victor position. Jesus is helpless and he has to take the dishonor, in the face of all those whom he loves and before his enemies who sneer before him.
So if this pic offends you, perhaps you better understand why the cross wasn't used as a Christian symbol until crucifixion was long gone. Because to depict Jesus on a cross is to depict this very scene. Hard to watch for anyone who really loves Jesus.
But this is what he put up with so we could be delivered from our sin.
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