Beer-Holding Jesus Not Popular in India

Not too much of a shock that a beer and cigarette-holding Jesus didn’t go over so well in a Christian-majority region of India. A book teaching children how to write in cursive (people still do that?) featured a picture of Jesus under the letter ‘I’ for idol. But this wasn’t your run of the mill depiction of the Son of God. instead this illustration showed Jesus with a beer and cigarette in hand. The book outraged officials and all copies of it were confiscated. Education minister Ampareen Lyngdoh was not happy to say the least:

“I am appalled and condemn the violent pictorial presentation of Christ. The children for whom the textbook was meant look up to Christ with reverence, and they are shocked beyond words.”

Not so sure the kiddies were shocked, so much as they were probably giggling and snickering around the room. I mean let’s face it, if a saw a picture of Jesus puffing away on a cigarette or chugging a beer, shocked is probably not the emotional response I’d have.

Via: Washington Post