The face of Jesus has appeared in a hospital prayer garden. Full story here. Maybe story should be in quotes. The headline adds the extra information '...prompts emails'. Wow. I think the word they are looking for is pareidolia.
When someone claims to see the face of Jesus or Mary in a cloud or piece of toast, I think 'How do you know what they looked like?'. (Setting their fictional status aside for a moment)
I wonder when our current collective image of this 'Jesus' person first appeared. I've always guessed that it probably first appeared in medieval times. In the same way that our image of Santa is really the 1930's Coca Cola advert, the standard Jesus is probably just some generic long-haired bearded hippy as sketched by Leonardo da Vinci or one of his friends.
Is it just me...? I like the new title to your blog, you've clearly found your niche!
ReplyDeleteClearly it is you though, as I regularly have a plethora of biblical characters in my toast; perhaps you should try another type of bread, I find mighty white particularly effective.